Poorni Badrinath
Senior Cartography Designer at HERE Technologies
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPoorni Badrinath is a Senior Cartography Designer and geospatial program manager with around a decade of experience crafting high-quality maps, data visualizations, and navigation workflows for companies like Mapbox, Grab and HERE Technologies. She blends hands-on cartographic design and coding (JavaScript, Python, Figma) with program-level leadership—building geo teams, training curricula, and robust documentation to scale mapping operations. Her work spans product-focused map validation and routing optimization as well as applied research for sustainable mobility in UNESCO heritage sites, showing a rare mix of technical rigor and conservation-minded fieldwork. A habitual birder and moody photographer, she brings observational sensitivity to map aesthetics and usability, informed by an MSc in Geographic Information Science and Cartography from TU Munich.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science, Bachelor's degree, Environmental Science at Mount Carmel College, Palace Rd, BengaluruMSc, Geographic Information Science and Cartography, MSc, Geographic Information Science and Cartography at Technical University of Munich
Github Skills (18)
openstreetmap7
map-matching6
osrm5
explore5
leaflet4
svg4
gis3
react2
editing2
api2
python1
javascript1
visualization1
frontend1
science1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
poornibadrinath/freaktrials
Nov 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
poornibadrinath/spacetimecube
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
spacetimecubetest
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 27 pushes in 22 days
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