Muhammad Ahmad
Geospatial Platforms Technical Team Lead
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolMuhammad Ahmad is a geospatial platforms technical lead with 10+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining geoportals, mobile GIS apps, and spatial data collection systems across research and development organizations. He specializes in GeoNode, GeoServer, Python, spatial analysis and databases, and holds a Master’s in Geodesy and GeoInformatics from KTH. At CIFOR-ICRAF he leads deployment and lifecycle management of landscape and country geoportals and spearheads Android projects for data dissemination and crowdsourced collection. His background spans long-term roles at ICRAF and earlier software engineering positions, giving him a rare blend of research-focused spatial engineering and production-grade software delivery. Known for turning complex spatial workflows into user-facing platforms, he often bridges field data collection with centralized geospatial services.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Geodesy and GeoInformatics, Master’s Degree, Geodesy and GeoInformatics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Github Skills (15)
django6
xlsform5
python5
gis5
esx5
earth4
odk-xform4
sdi4
geemap3
wms3
tms3
geospatial3
qgis2
geospatial-analysis1
3d1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mnahmad/scriptndebug
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:44 commits, 104 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
mnahmad/scripts
Nov 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 10 months
r-scriptspythonbash
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