Nahid Akbar
Software Engineering Lead at Scentre Group (Owner and Operator of Westfield in Aus and NZ)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolNahid Akbar is a Software Engineering Lead based in Sydney with 15 years’ experience delivering product-focused web and geospatial applications across research and enterprise. He combines hands-on front-end engineering—contributing UI features like charts and terrain-aware search pins to the popular TerriaJS geospatial library—with leadership roles at CSIRO Data61, Permaconn, and Scentre Group. Comfortable translating complex domain requirements into user-facing solutions, he pairs technical depth (Java, web stacks, geospatial standards) with an MBA-backed business perspective and a bias for shipping impact. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic executor—“YOLO; get it done”—who also mentors teams through technical scope and delivery trade-offs. His background in systems and electrical engineering gives him a systems-thinking approach to product design and integration.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityElectrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering at UNSW AustraliaYear 10 certificate, Year 10 certificate at Homebush Boys High SchoolYear 12 certificate, Year 12 certificate at Lake Tuggeranong CollegeMount Albert Grammar SchoolMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Australian Institute of Business
English, Japanese, Bengali
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
3d10
javascript10
react10
charts10
tokenize6
cut6
bash6
leafletjs5
webgl5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
TerriaJS/terriajs
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017
A library for building rich, web-based geospatial data platforms.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 9 PRs, 39 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nahid primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the terriajs project. They implemented a bar chart feature, including its rendering and tooltip interactions. Furthermore, they improved the search functionality by ensuring marker pins are correctly displayed on the terrain. Additional contributions included minor improvements like updating the chart title.
3d-globedataterriajsprogressive-enhancementmediawiki-extension
AusFTAs/example-api-tariffs
Jan 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 5 months
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