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 (24)
django7
gis6
esx6
geoserver6
wfs5
wps5
python5
xlsform5
converting4
geospatial4
data-management4
earth4
sdi4
wcs3
tms2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mnahmad/scriptndebug
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:44 commits, 75 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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