Imran Rajjad
Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia
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Top SchoolImran Rajjad is a seasoned GIS and software engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering spatially-driven systems across industries including oil & gas, telecommunications, agriculture, and vehicle tracking. He blends hands-on backend development and system architecture with leadership roles from team lead to solution architect, having delivered major GIS projects for Saudi Aramco and stadium development programs in Riyadh. Technically fluent in open-source geospatial stacks, he has contributed security and REST features to the flagship GeoServer project and added core functionality and tests to GeoTools, reflecting real impact on widely used geospatial libraries. His work spans spatial data mining, BI, and live asset-tracking systems, and he pairs domain expertise (groundwater/soil salinity mapping) with pragmatic implementation experience on enterprise platforms. Known for bridging research, R&D and production, he frequently turns complex spatial requirements into robust, deployable solutions. Based in Riyadh, he brings a rare combination of field-domain insight and deep open-source geospatial engineering.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BCS, BCS at NCBA&EMSC, MSC at Punjab University, PUCIT
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
geotools10
testing10
geospatial10
jdbc10
java10
wms10
javas10
rest-api10
postgresql9
security9
mongodb8
wfs8
mongodb-database8
mappings7
webmap7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 116 commits, 102 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Imran contributed to the GeoServer project by implementing a REST API for creating new users, enhancing the security features. They also fixed a data security rules issue related to layer renaming and introduced support for layer group information. Furthermore, the user added functionality for character set encoding options in file-type REST imports and addressed issues in GetLegendGraphic requests for cascaded WMS layers. The user also made improvements to existing functionalities.
wcswpswfsgeospatialgml
geotools/geotools
Feb 2019 - Oct 2020
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 49 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Imran contributed to the GeoTools library by implementing and testing features related to label placement, Oracle JDBC dialect, grid coverage, WMS layer and MongoDB data store. They fixed a bug related to SQL conversion and enhanced the WMS layer functionality. The user added tests for several modules of the library.
sqlserverpostgiswmsgeotoolsmongodb
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