Chaitanya Kumar
Sr. GIS Developer at Egis Geoplan Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolChaitanya Kumar is a Senior GIS Developer with 17 years of experience building full-stack geospatial solutions and promoting open-source GIS across India. He designs and leads complex projects—from LiDAR processing tools and sensor-data aggregation portals to mobile survey apps and WebGIS systems used by state health and municipal programs. A long-time GDAL contributor and OSGeo maintainer, he has fixed critical format bugs and added tests to one of the most widely used open geospatial libraries. Based in Bengaluru, he combines hands-on coding and QA with field-focused usability, delivering systems that work offline in remote areas and support low-training personnel. Actively involved in OSGeo-India and FOSS4G, he uniquely blends community advocacy with product delivery to drive adoption of open data and software.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Certificate Programme, Geospatial Technology Applications in Rural Development, Post Graduate Certificate Programme, Geospatial Technology Applications in Rural Development at National Institute of Rural DevelopmentB.Tech, Computer Science, B.Tech, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology
Hindi, Telugu, English
Github Skills (8)
vector10
c-language10
vector-math10
geospatial10
cprogramming-language10
spatial-data10
testing9
raster8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OSGeo/gdal
Mar 2009 - Sep 2012
GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:282 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Chaitanya primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the GDAL library, especially in the context of the MapInfo File (MIF) and DGN formats. Their work included addressing data type issues during MIF conversion, adding support for reading and writing font names in DGN styles, and improving the overall robustness of the library, including fixing an EOF test and documentation. Several commits also involved test updates and the creation of new tests to validate bug fixes and feature implementations.
licensedrasteriogeospatialrasterdata-formats
pramsey/gdal
Mar 2009 - Sep 2012
GDAL is an open source X/MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats. This is a mirror of the GDAL Subversion repository.
Contributions:57 commits in 3 years 6 months
licensedgeospatialsubversionrasterdata-formats
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