Devdatta Tengshe
Co-Founder at Terra Helix
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolDevdatta Tengshe is a geospatial technology leader and entrepreneur with over 12 years of hands-on experience and a 17-year background in GIS, product management, and web development. As co-founder of Terra Helix and GeoPune, he builds location-intelligent products and fosters community dialogue around maps and spatial data. He has led large engineering teams and delivered production-grade spatial APIs, data pipelines, and GIS products for enterprises including Ola and major NBFCs, translating complex datasets into operational decisioning tools. A frequent contributor to open spatial datasets (notably updating India administrative boundaries in the datameet/maps repository), he combines data engineering rigor with practical product sense. Devdatta also advises and architects cloud-native geospatial solutions—from UAV data portals to geocoding 50M addresses—bridging research, operations, and business outcomes. Based in Pune, he’s known for pragmatic innovation and turning messy, esoteric data sources into reliable, usable systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Geoinformatics at Symbiosis Institute of GeoinformaticsB.Sc, Physics, B.Sc, Physics at St. Xavier's College
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Github Skills (20)
geospatial10
open-data10
xml-parsing10
shapefile10
data-engineering9
vba9
parsing9
xml9
version-control6
data-analysis6
gis6
sql6
android6
postgis6
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
datameet/maps
Mar 2014 - Oct 2021
Repository for all spatial data.
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:1 review, 24 commits, 23 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Devdatta primarily contributed to the `datameet/maps` repository by updating and correcting spatial data related to India. They focused on modifying shapefiles representing administrative boundaries, including parliamentary constituencies, districts, and state/UT boundaries. Their work involved correcting extent issues, merging features, updating data to reflect current statuses, and incorporating new administrative divisions like Telangana and the UTs of Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir.
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datameet/Municipal_Spatial_Data
Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 review, 29 commits, 20 PRs in 6 years 4 months
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