Erick Ndava
Senior GIS Technician at City of Cape Town
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolErick Ndava is a Senior GIS Technician with over a decade of hands-on experience turning messy spatial data into reliable, decision-ready geodatabases for municipal and commercial projects. Based in the Western Cape, he currently supports the City of Cape Town’s Sustainable Urban Management team, specialising in cadastral maintenance, land-ownership investigations and cartographic products that bridge technical teams and directorate clients. His background spans production-focused roles at Tracks4Africa and Geosense, where he honed PostGIS, QGIS, GeoServer and spatial SQL skills alongside traditional Esri toolsets. Erick’s early academic and teaching experience sharpened his remote sensing and image-interpretation abilities and instilled a practical knack for training and lab management. He’s as comfortable automating data workflows and resolving SAP-linked real-estate queries as he is crafting aesthetically clear maps—often insisting that lines shown in QGIS tell a truer story than the street itself. Practical, detail-oriented and curious, he blends cartographic craft with data-science thinking to support city-scale planning and reporting.
12 years of coding experience
BSc Honours in Surveying, GeoInformatics, BSc Honours in Surveying, GeoInformatics at University of Zimbabwe
Github Skills (13)
kepler10
geospatial10
geospatial-analysis9
kepler-gl9
data-visualization9
visualization9
gis9
scale9
large-scale8
leaflet3
nodejs3
frontend2
postgis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erickndava/pioneer-column-1890
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:131 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
zimgeospatial/reference
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year
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