Summary
Rajat Shinde is a computer scientist with nine years of experience specializing in geospatial software and open-source community leadership, currently building multi-mission analytics at NASA-IMPACT. He holds advanced degrees from IIT Bombay and has a strong track record in OSGeo governance—serving as Vice President, Board member, charter member and ZOO-Project steering committee member—bridging research-grade geo-informatics with production systems. A seasoned Google Summer of Code participant and mentor, Rajat has guided and scaled student projects into maintainable open-source components and contributed Earth Engine applications for ecological visualization. Based in Huntsville, he combines academic rigor with practical engineering across remote-sensing, WPS/MapMint integrations and ML-for-geology research. Outside work he plays the flute, a detail that reflects his mix of technical discipline and creative curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, 8.94, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, 8.94 at National Institute of Technology Raipur