Bal Jha
Freelance Software Engineer at Toptal
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBal Jha is a freelance software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience across backend, frontend, ML, and DevOps, currently working through Toptal from Delhi. A generalist and quick learner, he excels at automating workflows and solving challenging problems with pragmatic, language-agnostic solutions. His background spans data science and deep learning roles, including improving spatial data notebooks for the widely used ArcGIS Python API—fixing Landsat imagery processing and visualization issues to make samples runnable. At Aviyel and Vitrana he delivered production-facing features while maintaining a sharp focus on reliability and reproducibility. Comfortable diving into any layer of the stack, he blends mathematical rigor from a Delhi University degree with a hacker’s iterative Build it. Break it. Fix it. mindset.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Delhi
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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120reached
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Github Skills (14)
data-visualizations10
mappings10
jupyter-notebook10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
spatial-data-analysis10
python10
gis9
arcgis9
spatial-data8
data-science8
html6
javascript6
jquery6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-python-api
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs in 11 days
Contributions summary:Bal primarily contributed to improving and fixing existing Jupyter notebooks related to Landsat imagery processing within the ArcGIS API for Python. Their commits demonstrate a focus on correcting code errors and ensuring the proper display of map images within the notebooks. The user's work involved modifying code related to multispectral Landsat layers and geometry functions, indicating a focus on spatial data analysis and visualization. They also fixed multiple notebooks in order to successfully load them and to be able to execute them without errors, including the addition of a missing image.
apiarcgispythonjupyterlab-extensiondata-science
chrishna1/chrishna1.github.io
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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