Ujaval Gandhi
Founder at Spatial Thoughts
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
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Top SchoolUjaval Gandhi is a geospatial technology founder and former Google staff geo data strategist with over a decade of experience building and scaling satellite and aerial imagery processing systems. He led large teams and modernized production pipelines at Google—delivering faster crisis imagery processing, automated QA, and scalable third-party data ingestion—and now runs Spatial Thoughts to teach QGIS, Python, GDAL and Earth Engine through open-source materials and live global training. His work blends deep engineering (MS in Geospatial Information Engineering) with practical operations and productization, having built tools that serve internal enterprise customers and non-profits across 100+ countries. A lawyer-by-study in intellectual property as well as an engineer, he brings a rare mix of technical, operational and legal perspective to geospatial data challenges.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMS, Geospatial Information Engineering, MS, Geospatial Information Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonK12, High School, K12, High School at C.N.VidyalayaPost Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Law, Intellectual Property Law, 3.75, Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Law, Intellectual Property Law, 3.75 at National Law School of India University
English, Gujarati, Hindi
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Github Skills (93)
python10
wps10
gdal10
data-management10
mapping-tools10
spatial10
openstreetmap10
ogc10
qgis10
tms10
geopandas10
ipywidgets10
shapefile10
system-information10
sphinx10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spatialthoughts/courses
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Code and HTML page repository for courses.spatialthoughts.com
Contributions:3 releases, 20 reviews, 996 commits in 3 years 3 months
html-pagegoogle-earth-engineearth-enginemapping-toolsspatial-data-analysis
spatialthoughts/python-tutorials
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Spatial Analysis and Remote Sensing with Python Tutorials
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 187 pushes in 5 months
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