Franz Gaisie-essilfie
Assistant Research Scientist (GIS And Remote Sensing) at Water Research Institute
Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
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Top SchoolFranz Gaisie-essilfie is an experienced GIS and remote sensing scientist with 12 years blending hands-on software development and geospatial research, currently supporting hydrology and environmental studies at Ghana’s Water Research Institute. He designs and automates GIS workflows, develops custom remote-sensing algorithms with NumPy, Rasterio and OSGeo, and leads data collection and structuring efforts to enable robust research outputs. His background includes building GIS applications with ArcObjects for regional energy planning and delivering bespoke software solutions as a lead developer and consultant. An active contributor to open-source back-end work, he has extended query and serialization capabilities in the popular LiteDB .NET project, demonstrating cross-domain expertise in databases and geospatial processing. He holds an MSc from ITC (University of Twente) and is pursuing a PhD in Land Use Planning, combining rigorous academic training with practical, field-oriented problem solving.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Land Use Planning and Management/Development, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Land Use Planning and Management/Development at Kwame Nkrumah' University of Science and Technology, KumasiMaster of Science (MSc), Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Master of Science (MSc), Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of TwenteBachelor of Science (BSc), Natural Resources Management, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Natural Resources Management at Kwame Nkrumah' University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
French, Spanish, English, asante twi
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Github Skills (26)
nosql10
linq10
net10
asp-net10
vbnet10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
dotnet9
user-interface9
forloop9
datatable9
winforms9
foreach9
databases9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
litedb-org/LiteDB
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 days
Contributions summary:Franz implemented core functionalities within the LiteDB project, focusing on enhancing the query capabilities of the NoSQL document store. They added support for LINQ methods like `All` and `Any`, enabling more complex querying within the database. Furthermore, the user modified the serialization process to accommodate read-only properties and made modifications to the query visitor to support all expression types, significantly expanding the expressiveness of the LINQ queries. Comprehensive unit tests were added to validate the new functionality.
document-storedotnetnosqllitedbnosql-database
franzalex/System.IO.Csv
May 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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