Curriculum vitae
Human geography technologist. Twenty years of work across Asia, leading multilingual technical teams that are stronger for the range of cultures and worldviews in them, and opening up data and technology to underserved communities. I'm always learning, and I use AI every day to research, build and ship better work, faster.
Experience
- Geospatial data engineer (freelance)Oct 2026 – presentIndependent
Open geospatial data engineering: Overture Maps extraction and classification pipelines, cloud-native GeoParquet and PMTiles publishing, DuckDB and PostGIS analysis.
- Managing DirectorAug 2016 – Sep 2026Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd.
GIS services, data analysis and software development.
- ManagerOct 2022 – Sep 2026Ta Ethni LLC
Managed delivery of a multi-service geospatial software-as-a-service platform: .NET APIs, Angular front end, PostgreSQL and PostGIS, Azure.
- Strategic AdvisorAug 2020 – Sep 2026TaEthni OÜ
Advised on product and technical strategy for the same platform.
- PartnerMay 2015 – May 2017No Place Left Guesthouse Pvt. Ltd.
Managed and trained staff, and designed the systems that ran the guesthouse's business plan in Nepal's tourism and hotel market.
- Communications ConsultantDec 2005 – Apr 2015Global Educational and Training Services LLC
Coached client organisations to set goals and improve their processes and strategy; coached cross-cultural teams.
Skills
- Data engineeringPython (NumPy, pandas, GeoPandas), DuckDB, Apache Spark and Sedona, Microsoft Fabric, Delta Lake
- GeospatialPostGIS, GeoParquet, PMTiles, Overture Maps, ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, topology
- PlatformsAzure, Docker and Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare
- Web mappingMapLibre GL JS, React
Education
- Universität Salzburg (UNIGIS)
2018 – 2020 - Oklahoma Baptist University
1999 – 2003
Languages
- EnglishNative
- Nepali
- Hindi
- Bhojpuri