Seffat Chowdhury
Senior Software Developer at General Motors
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSeffat Chowdhury is a Senior Software Developer based in Toronto with a multidisciplinary background spanning aerospace, Earth observation, cloud, big-data and AI. He brings four years of hands-on software experience plus a decade of systems and control engineering expertise, having led avionics and missile guidance projects and managed cloud-native satellite data platforms. At SANSA he architected and operated the Digital Earth Africa platform—maintaining petabytes of imagery and 100% uptime during a major transition—while coordinating distributed teams and suppliers across continents. Now at General Motors he focuses on virtualization and SIL integration, combining embedded systems rigor with modern DevOps and IaC practices. An academic by night and systems architect by day, he blends formal PhD-level engineering thinking with practical delivery, often translating high-fidelity models into production software. He’s known for tackling high-impact, cross-domain problems and mentoring teams to operationalize complex research into reliable systems.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at University of KwaZulu-NatalUniversity of Pretoria
Github Skills (27)
datacube9
prototyping6
cube6
open-data6
docker-image6
summaries6
docker5
continent5
binder4
landsat4
indexing4
earth4
rates4
python4
collections4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SANSA-DESA/sansa-desa-datacube-indexing
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Scripts to produce datacube document indexing files
Contributions:4 commits, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 months
indexingdatacube
SANSA-DESA/argo-docker
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
argo-docker
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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