Sud Menon
Director, Software Product Development at Esri
Redlands, California, United States
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Top SchoolSud Menon is a veteran software product leader at Esri, currently serving as Director of Software Product Development with a multi-decade career shaping GIS platforms from core geodatabases to ArcGIS Online and Server. He blends deep technical roots—PhD-level training in geography and master's degrees in remote sensing and computer science—with hands-on architecture and development leadership dating back to Arc/Info and ArcView. Known for steering cross-divisional engineering programs and standards work (including early OGC Simple Features collaboration), he excels at turning geospatial research into scalable, production-grade software. Based in Redlands, California, he has a rare combination of domain expertise in geospatial science and long-term product stewardship that informs strategic decisions and developer-facing design. Colleagues rely on him to bridge academic rigor with pragmatic delivery, guiding teams through platform evolution and cloud-era modernization.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster’s Degree, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, Master’s Degree, Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry at State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and ForestryMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (11)
indexed9
geographic9
specification9
scene9
volume-rendering8
hosts8
persistence7
3d7
orientdb7
web-development7
gltf5
Github contributions (1)
Esri/i3s-spec
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
This repository hosts the specification for Scene Layers which are containers for arbitrarily large amounts of geographic data. The delivery and persistence model for Scene Layers, referred to as Indexed 3d Scene Layer (I3S) and Scene Layer Package (SLPK) respectively, are specified.
Contributions:8 commits in 1 day
containersindexed3d-sceneamountsspecification
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