Summary
Mhairi O'hara is a GIS consultant with 11 years’ experience designing open source GIS solutions, remote sensing workflows and web mapping infrastructures for both public and private sectors. She founded MapNut to deliver analysis, infrastructure, migration and training services that prioritise open data and sustainable, low-cost field collection. Her background includes a MSc in Geographical Information Science from the University of Edinburgh and hands-on work at EDINA maintaining national geodata pipelines and web services. Mhairi has supported humanitarian mapping through multiple roles at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, leading technical projects and field training on tools like OpenMapKit. Based in Bali, she blends practical field experience—surveying and lava-hazard modelling at USGS—with production-grade data engineering using PostGIS, GDAL and Python.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Geographical Information Science, Master of Science, Geographical Information Science at The University of Edinburgh
Bachelors of Science, Geography, Bachelors of Science, Geography at King's College London, U. of London
International Baccalaureate, Higher Geography, Bahasa Indonesian, & Art,, International Baccalaureate, Higher Geography, Bahasa Indonesian, & Art, at Jakarta International School
English, bahasa indonesian