Summary
Mohamed Othman is a geospatial technology leader and software engineer with nine years of experience building and operationalizing location data products across the Middle East. Currently managing Geospatial Data Operations and Maps Data Partnerships at TomTom in Dubai, he combines hands-on GIS development (PostgreSQL, FME, QGIS, ArcGIS, ArcGIS JS) with strategic partner sourcing and office/site operations. He has a track record of securing open government data to reduce costs and improve map coverage, and previously led GIS implementations for national ministries and cloud-based map services. With an MSc in Software Engineering and specialized training in geo-information sharing, he bridges software engineering and spatial analytics to deliver production-grade mapping applications. Notably, he has grown and led technical teams, moving legacy on-prem maps to AWS-hosted services and shipping mobile and web GIS products used by government stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Twente
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Ain Shams University
Building Infrastructures For Geo-information Sharing, Building Infrastructures For Geo-information Sharing at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente
English, Arabic, French