Rhea Jackson
Senior Software Development Engineer at Esri
Sharjah Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolRhea Jackson is a Senior Software Development Engineer with eight years of experience at Esri, rising from entry-level SDE to her current senior role and combining product engineering with research-driven development. She holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and is pursuing advanced data science studies at BITS Pilani, bringing strong geospatial and data analysis expertise to software projects. At Esri she has contributed practical, analysis-focused code and notebooks to the widely used arcgis-python-api—applying Sentinel-2 imagery and raster function chains to real-world problems like wildfire analysis and agricultural site suitability. Rhea blends hands-on engineering with data-science rigor, shipping reproducible analytical tooling and documentation that make complex geospatial workflows accessible. Based in Sharjah, UAE, she pairs a global perspective with a track record of turning geospatial research into production-ready software.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceCampion SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Govt. Model Engineering College
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
mappings10
arcgis10
spatial-data-analysis10
geospatial10
python10
jupyter10
spatial-analysis10
geospatial-analysis10
data-science10
spatial-data10
gis9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/arcgis-python-api
Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:8 reviews, 16 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rhea contributed to the repository by adding and modifying Jupyter notebooks. The commits focused on adding an analysis of the Pawnee fire using Sentinel-2 data and creating notebooks to determine site suitability for oil palm plantations. The user's work demonstrates the use of geospatial data analysis techniques and the application of raster function chains.
apiarcgispythonjupyterlab-extensiondata-science
rhea-j/arcgis-python-api
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Documentation and samples for ArcGIS API for Python
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 8 months
apipythonarcgisarcgis-api
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