Sajjad Anwar
Engineering And Strategy Lead
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSajjad Anwar is an engineering and strategy lead with 15 years of experience building geospatial data systems and teams that bridge conservation, development, and product engineering. He currently drives partnerships, operations, engineering, and communications at Development Seed, helping partners translate earth observation and OpenStreetMap data into long-term technical vision and impactful projects. Previously he scaled Mapbox’s OSM operations in India from a two-person effort to a ~40-member team and led adoption of OSM into products used by thousands of customers. Sajjad combines hands-on data engineering—having built national-scale education and mapping data platforms—with strategic leadership that supports high-quality delivery across multidisciplinary teams. Deeply invested in open geospatial communities, he treats underused earth observation data as a strategic lever for climate and conservation outcomes. Outside work he’s a programmer and cyclist who “hearts maps,” a detail that underscores both his technical craft and personal commitment to mapping communities.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram
Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
datasets10
sailfishos10
transit-data10
api10
open-data10
python10
planetary10
openstreetmap-data10
postgresql10
flask10
openstreetmap10
javascript10
django-rest10
postgis10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
developmentseed/observe
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Cross-platform, offline, field mapping tool for OpenStreetMap
Contributions:3 releases, 563 commits, 171 PRs in 1 year 1 month
mappingmapfieldcross-platformosm
orma/openroads-vn-analytics
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:169 PRs, 208 pushes, 81 branches in 1 year 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.