Ragi Burhum
Co-Founder CEO at Canaria
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolRagi Burhum is a seasoned founder and engineering leader with 13+ years building GIS and geospatial data platforms, currently CEO and co-founder of venture-backed AmigoCloud and CTO at Canaria. He began his career at Esri working on ArcGIS geodatabase internals and later shaped the GIS data pipeline for Microsoft Flight Simulator, bringing deep domain expertise in mapping, large geodata pipelines, and spatial analytics. Ragi has founded and scaled startups—building ModeWalk’s e-commerce stack from scratch before its acquisition—and ran a successful Bay Area GIS consulting practice serving clients like NVIDIA. An active open-source contributor and OSGeo charter member, he’s improved critical tooling such as TileStache (adding cache flexibility and test scaffolding) that underpin many mapping applications. He also organizes GeoMeetup, the largest developer-focused geospatial meetup, demonstrating a rare combination of technical depth, community leadership, and product instincts. Based in San Diego, he blends hands-on engineering, devops, and startup strategy to commercialize complex geospatial technology.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at California State University-San BernardinoAlexander Von Humboldt
Spanish, German, French, English
Stackoverflow
1,641reputation
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Github Skills (19)
caching10
python10
dll9
testing9
geometry9
memcached9
dynamic-linking6
static-linking6
gis6
shared-libraries6
google-maps6
geodjango6
geospatial6
java6
vector5
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TileStache/TileStache
Jan 2013 - Nov 2018
A stylish alternative for caching your map tiles.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ragi contributed to the project by fixing dependency installation issues by modifying the `setup.py` file. They added the `key_prefix` option to the Memcache cache and implemented a `pass_through` mode for the URLTemplate provider, enhancing caching and provider flexibility. The user also added a skeleton for tests and a script to run them, indicating a focus on improving the project's testing infrastructure.
map-tilesfltkcachingtilemap
rburhum/arcgis-ogr
Sep 2012 - Nov 2014
Contributions:54 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
arcgisworkspaceogr
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