Jin Igarashi
Software Engineer at Fracta
Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
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Top SchoolJin Igarashi is a software engineer specializing in geospatial systems for water, sanitation and public policy, blending over a decade of field experience in Japan and East Africa with full‑stack GIS development. He holds an MSc (Eng) with distinction in Water, Sanitation and Health from the University of Leeds and is pursuing an MSc in Computer Science (AI) at the University of York, reflecting a rare mix of domain expertise and advancing AI skills. Jin has led open-source GIS projects used by utilities and UNDP, built sustainable geospatial pipelines for NRW and asset management in Kenya and Rwanda, and presented GeoHub work at FOSS4G 2023. Comfortable across cloud-native backend systems, vector tiles and mapping frontends, he has a track record of turning operational field needs into maintainable software and enduring local capacity through training and volunteer partnerships.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese language, Chinese language at Peking UniversityMSc(Eng) Water Sanitation and Health Engineering, Distinction, MSc(Eng) Water Sanitation and Health Engineering, Distinction at University of LeedsMSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, MSc in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence at University of YorkBachelor of Arts - BA, Chinese and Korean History, 3.85, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Chinese and Korean History, 3.85 at Tokai university
English, Japanese, Chinese, Swahili
Github Skills (200)
tiles10
photon10
maptiler10
mapbox-gl10
gdal10
authentication10
geojson10
stac10
cesiumjs10
h310
rgb10
maplibre-gl10
elevation10
auth10
javascript10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
WASAC/vt
Jul 2020 - Dec 2023
This is to manage vectortiles for WASAC in Github pages.
Contributions:4 releases, 14 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 5 months
sarifshieldsvectortilesdockergithubactions
WASAC/mapbox-gl-js-client
Jun 2020 - Jul 2022
It shows Mapbox Vector Tile from Mapbox Studio
Contributions:8 PRs, 114 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years
mvtmapboxmapbox-gltilevector-tile
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