Geospatial Software Engineer

GIS, backend and applied AI: from spatial databases to deployed decision-support tools.

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Featured projects

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Obstacle Compliance & Airport GIS System

Prototype web GIS for checking structures against aerodrome obstacle limitation surfaces in Kenya.

DjangoGeoDjangoPostGIS

AgriInsight

Satellite-based crop health monitoring and decision support for farms.

DjangoPostGISGoogle Earth Engine

SiteSeeker | Retail Location Intelligence

Draw a polygon and get competitors, demographics, traffic and revenue estimates in one panel.

Next.jsPostGISLeaflet

KCAA Smart Assistant (RAG)

Grounded, citation-backed answers from KCAA regulations, services and news.

RAGChromaDBLangChain

Experience

Jan 2025 – Present · Kitale, Kenya
GIS Developer — ForbSpace Inc.
- Leading development of a company-owned Aeronautical Information GIS Platform (Django, PostGIS, GeoServer), full SDLC from backend architecture to standards-compliant services.
- Designed and implemented backend architecture using Django, PostGIS, and GeoServer to deliver reliable, standards-compliant geospatial services.
June 2025 – Present · Nairobi, Kenya
Contributing developer — SpatioNEX
- Contributes to architecture design and systems engineering across SpatioNEX geospatial intelligence platforms.
- Contributed to AgriInsight crop-monitoring work, shared between SpatioNEX and personal builds.
June 2025 – Present · Nairobi, Kenya
Contributing developer — Personal projects
- Ships GIS/web apps: airport obstacle prototype, crop-health monitoring, retail location intelligence, fleet and asset dashboards.
- Models ICAO Annex 14 obstacle surfaces as a personal prototype on public data with demo certificates.

Skills

GeoAI & Deep Learning for Remote Sensing

Random Forest + classical ML for land-cover
ANN / CNN for crop and land-cover signals
SegFormer / transformer segmentation
ANFIS for heterogeneous RS inputs
Ground-truth curation + augmentation

Spatial Data Infrastructure & Databases

PostgreSQL/PostGIS schema design
Spatial SQL + indexing
GeoServer deployment
Data validation pipelines

GIS Application Development

Django / GeoDjango / Flask / FastAPI
RESTful geospatial APIs
SDLC: requirements → deployment → maintenance
ETL + workflow automation

Applied AI Assistants

RAG + ChromaDB (grounded, citation-backed)
LangChain + Groq Llama pipelines
PDF chunking + embeddings
Gated web and social retrieval

Also in the toolkit

Enterprise & Open-Source GIS:: ArcGIS Pro / Online / Enterprise · QGIS + PyQGIS + Modeler · ArcPy + ModelBuilder · QField / Survey123 / KoboCollect
Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis:: Google Earth Engine + GEEMAP · NDVI / EVI / SAVI / NDMI · LULC + change detection · HEC-RAS / HEC-HMS / SWAT watershed
WebGIS & Frontend:: Leaflet / Mapbox / OpenLayers · Next.js + Tailwind + TypeScript · Power BI dashboards · Mobile-first interactive maps
DevOps & Field Data:: Docker + CI/CD + Git · AWS / GCP / Cloud Run / Vercel · RTK GNSS + AutoCAD · SOPs + training + mentoring

Education & certifications

BSc. Geospatial Information Science & Remote Sensing

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology · 2020 – 2024

Certifications

Software Development · Power Learn Project · Nov 2025 View credential ↗
ESRI GIS certifications · ESRI · Nov 2022 View credential ↗

Community

Chairperson – Geospatial Developers’ Club · Dedan Kimathi University of Technology · Dec 2022 – Jan 2024
Led workshops on GIS programming, WebGIS, and Spatial Machine Learning.