Upendra Karukonda
Team Lead at GlobalLogic
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolUpendra Karukonda is a pragmatic Team Lead with 9 years of experience turning large geospatial datasets into production-quality mapping content for customers like Apple Maps, TomTom and Mapbox. He combines hands-on data analysis (Python, SQL, QGIS) with people leadership—scaling teams from 5 to 100 and running onboarding, training and QC for complex, multi-country mapping projects. His work shipped navigational assets across dozens of countries and resolved critical QA workflows using OpenStreetMap tooling, improving live map coverage for ride‑hailing and navigation products. Prior roles span GIS digitization and customer-facing sales, giving him a rare mix of technical, operational and stakeholder-management strengths. He also organizes community mapping events and brings a driver-perspective to map quality, informed by a US drivers-education certification.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 1st class, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, 1st class at Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Beside VSEZ, Duvvada, Gajuwaka,Vadlapudi (P.O)Pin-530049 (CC-L3)
Github Skills (31)
openstreetmap8
map-matching7
osrm7
visualization4
mapbox-gl-js4
django-rest4
visualize4
mappings4
deck-gl4
api3
django3
django-rest-framework3
data-visualization3
python2
rest-api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kupendrayadav/tourism
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
kupendrayadav/My-first-repository
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
javascriptreact
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