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Muhammad Arsalan Mukhtar

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Geospatial software engineer at Pakistan’s NDMA building national disaster-risk and early-warning platforms.

Pakistan
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At Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, I’m the sole developer on four national platforms for multi-hazard risk, glacial lake outburst floods, convective forecast risk, and landslide early warning. I’ve built systems that bring spatial data through ingestion and processing to tiled APIs and map clients, including an exposure workflow covering roughly 69.9 million building footprints.

Alongside my NDMA work, I’ve delivered 155 independent projects for 85 clients across 23 countries. At Plan4Better GmbH, I built an open-data validation pipeline for OpenStreetMap features; my work also includes flood mapping, remote sensing, and spatial analysis. I hold an MSc in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics from Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart as a DAAD scholar.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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GIS Developer

Plan4Better GmbH

May 2025 - Aug 2025 (3 months)

Built an automated open-data validation pipeline in Python screening millions of OpenStreetMap features, using Longest Common Subsequence matching to detect duplicate and anomalous contributions across annual snapshots. Integrated the Overture Maps GERS identifier framework with the existing spatial database, and implemented quantitative duplication metrics with automated Markdown and GeoPackage r

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GIS Specialist

TPL Maps

Dec 2020 - Jul 2023 (2 years 7 months)

Developed web GIS applications with Leaflet, Mapbox GL JS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS and pg_tileserv over national road, POI and municipal datasets. Performed data querying, analysis and visualisation in ArcGIS, QGIS, Python and PostgreSQL, and automated recurring geoprocessing workflows including offline map production for the Pakistan Polio Eradication Initiative.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart logoHS

Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart

Master of Science, Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics

2023 - 2025

Activities and societies: DAAD Scholarship

MSc in Photogrammetry and Geoinformatics with a DAAD scholarship. Thesis on a PyQGIS plugin for spatial and demographic visualization of census data.

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) logoNN

National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)

Bachelor of Science, Geoinformatics

2016 - 2020

BSc in Geoinformatics covering object-oriented programming, data structures, digital mapping, image processing, database management, and spatial decision support systems.

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