Majid Hojati
Senior Geospatial Data Engineer
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMajid Hojati is a Senior Geospatial Data Engineer with 11 years of experience combining GeoAI research and production-grade geospatial engineering. He holds a PhD in Geography and Environmental Studies and has translated academic work on distributed spatial data sharing, DGGS, and GeoAI into industry solutions across startups, consulting, and academia. Majid has led GIS teams and built scalable pipelines, vector-tile and web GIS applications using technologies from PostGIS and GeoDjango to React/Cesium and Node.js. He recently completed a GeoAI postdoc exploring spatial reasoning with LLMs and now applies that expertise to enterprise geospatial data products at Ready.net. Known for bridging rigorous spatial science with pragmatic ETL, mapping and P2P/blockchain experiments, he brings both deep research credentials and hands-on delivery experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Geography and Cartography (GIS), PhD, Geography and Cartography (GIS) at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityMaster's degree, Geographic information system and remote sensing, Master's degree, Geographic information system and remote sensing at University of TehranBachelor’s Degree, Urban Studies/Affairs, Bachelor’s Degree, Urban Studies/Affairs at Isfahan University of Arts
English, Persian
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Github Skills (200)
tiles10
google-places10
google-places-api10
metadata10
android-js10
visual-studio10
geography10
3d10
cpp10
gltf10
openmaptiles10
vector-graphics10
api10
kotlin-android10
switcher10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
am2222/mapbox-pmtiles
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
A custom source to add PmTiles support to mapbox gl js. Supports both raster and vector pmtiles
Contributions:2 reviews, 36 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year
geospatialgismapbox-gl-jspmtiles
am2222/pydggrid
May 2019 - May 2020
Python wrapper for Discrete Global Grid (DGG) based on DGGRID
Contributions:1 release, 140 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year
pythonpython-wrapperdiscretedgggrid
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