GIS & Remote Sensing Expert

Earth observation, vegetation monitoring, early-warning systems.

Experience

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis

  • Google Earth Engine + GEEMAP
  • NDVI / EVI / SAVI / NDMI
  • LULC + change detection
  • HEC-RAS / HEC-HMS / SWAT watershed

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

Enterprise & Open-Source GIS

  • ArcGIS Pro / Online / Enterprise
  • QGIS + PyQGIS + Modeler
  • ArcPy + ModelBuilder
  • QField / Survey123 / KoboCollect

Spatial Data Infrastructure & Databases

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

Also in the toolkit

GIS Application Development:
Django / GeoDjango / Flask / FastAPI · RESTful geospatial APIs · SDLC: requirements → deployment → maintenance · ETL + workflow automation
DevOps & Field Data:
Docker + CI/CD + Git · AWS / GCP / Cloud Run / Vercel · RTK GNSS + AutoCAD · SOPs + training + mentoring
WebGIS & Frontend:
Leaflet / Mapbox / OpenLayers · Next.js + Tailwind + TypeScript · Power BI dashboards · Mobile-first interactive maps
Applied AI Assistants:
RAG + ChromaDB (grounded, citation-backed) · LangChain + Groq Llama pipelines · PDF chunking + embeddings · Gated web and social retrieval

Education & certifications

BSc. Geospatial Information Science & Remote Sensing

Dedan Kimathi University of Technology · 2020 – 2024

Certifications

Community

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

Contact

Available for GIS, WebGIS and applied-AI consulting

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