Abraham Poorazizi

Geospatial Geek, Builder, Innovator

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Geospatial Data & Technology Leader

I am an award-winning geospatial data geek, builder, and innovator. I am passionate about creating digital solutions to solve real-world problems using open-source software, open standards, and open data. In my career, I have helped engineering teams implement software development best practices, supported product teams deliver turnkey solutions, and worked with sales and marketing teams to showcase products by giving presentations and writing blog posts.

At the moment, I am a senior developer advocate on the Amazon Location Service team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I strive to inspire developers by showing them how Amazon Location Service (and AWS) can solve real-world problems, educate them by telling them what to build and how to build it, enable them by helping them choose the right tool for the job, and engage with them to gather feedback.

Skills

Self-Motivated, Creative, Team Player

Core Skills

Spatial Data Science
GIS Systems Design
Web Mapping
Geospatial IoT
Cloud Computing

Interests

Entrepreneurship
Rapid Prototyping
Machine Learning
Data Visualization
Data-Driven Applications

Technical Skills

Languages: JavaScript, Python, SQL
Tech Stack: PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Node.js, Vue.js, MapboxGL.js
Geospatial: QGIS, GDAL/OGR, GeoServer
DevOps: Git, Docker, AWS Cloud

Awards

First Place at AWS Graviton Hackathon

Amazon Web Services (AWS), 2021

Second Place at AWS Graviton Hackathon

Amazon Web Services (AWS), 2021

First Place at AWS ML Developer Challenge

Amazon Web Services (AWS), 2020

Grand Prize at TensorFlow 2.0 Challenge

Google, 2019

Best Existing App Migrated to Aurora

Amazon Web Services (AWS), 2018

Best Interactive Map

Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), 2015

Best Open Data Mashup

ChallengePost & Socrata, 2015

Best Web Map & People's Choice Award

GeoAlberta, 2014

Best Web Map & Best Student Map

GeoAlberta, 2013

Best Student App

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), 2013

Education

University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

PhD, Geomatics Engineering - Graduated: 2016

I worked with a team of researchers on various projects from developing a social media platform for urban planning to building an OpenStreetMap-like platform for the Arctic and creating a framework for filtering, classifying, and mapping social media messages for disaster response.

K.N.T University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

MSc, Geomatics Engineering - Graduated: 2010

I used open-source software and open geospatial standards (OGC) to build an interoperable system to acquire, process, and publish sensor observations from air quality monitoring stations.

Experience

AWS

Senior Developer Advocate / Feb 2022 - Present

Show developers how AWS can solve real-world problems, tell them what to build and how to build it, help them choose the right tool for the job, and get their feedback.

SensorUp

Senior Solutions Architect / Oct 2018 - Feb 2022

Provided a unique skill set of design, architecture, and business strategy to build easy-to-use and scalable data analytics and visualization products.