Youssef Harby
Co-Founder at OSGeo
Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Summary
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Top SchoolYoussef Harby is a GIS-focused software engineer and co-founder with six years of experience designing complex spatial systems and delivering production-ready geospatial tooling. He combines hands-on engineering—from asynchronous FastAPI backends, PostGIS workflows and GeoServer automation to building raster/vector tile servers and custom Streamlit tools—with product-focused delivery and budget-conscious team leadership. As a spatial applications engineer at CartoLogic and now a co-founder of walkthru.earth, he bridges cloud GIS, Google Earth Engine automation and containerized deployments to streamline time-series raster and vector data pipelines. He mentors and teaches (ITI instructor) while contributing to standards and community as a charter member of OSGeo and a member of OGC, bringing both practical implementation experience and standards awareness. Colleagues know him for turning intricate spatial requirements into automated publishable workflows and for fostering learning cultures that accelerate team growth.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Architecture, Bachelor's degree, Architecture at El Shorouk Academy
Github Skills (200)
visual-editor10
gdal10
graphql-api10
ogc10
pyqgis10
api10
endpoint10
nodejs10
sql-database10
visualization10
oracle10
headless-cms10
cms10
spatial10
rest-api10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
Youssef-Harby/report-it
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:203 commits, 38 PRs, 180 pushes in 1 month
Youssef-Harby/OvertureMapsDownloader
Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Overture Maps Downloader simplifies geospatial data manipulation by integrating the powerful DuckDB, Dask DataFrames, and GDAL/OGR open source tools.
Contributions:5 releases, 15 PRs, 59 pushes in 7 months
duckdbduckdb-wasmgdalgeoparquegeospatial
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