# Pratik Dhungana

> Software Engineer with a solid background in GIS and Remote Sensing

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/pratikdhungana

A Geomatics Engineer with 5 years of Experience in Computer Vision and Geospatial science. Proficient with Python, SQL, R, and ESRI ArcGIS ecosystem. Extensive experience in leading teams and performing quality control in GIS analysis and development, and computer vision projects on aerial and satellite images. Looking for opportunities to work in development as well as a production environment for solving real-world issues.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cisco Spaces
Jan 2024 – Present | Milpitas, CA

### GIS Technical Specialist @ SafeAI (now part of Pronto)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, CA

### Survey Officer @ Survey Department, Nepal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Kathmandu
•	Led a team of 6 engineers in designing a national topographic database and automating the migration of data from older versions to newer versions; Created specifications for database, symbols, and map layout.
•	Improved the speed of analysis by conversion of tabular data and shapefiles into PostGIS database tables.
•	Automated data preprocessing, analysis, and visualization workflow to reduce 7 weeks of manual work for 48 people each year, Reconciled schema and domain conflict between past national land use databases.
•	Enabled rapid updating of large and small-scale 3D topographic information through the construction of 3D scenes from LiDAR data and optical stereo pairs.
•	Provided monthly training on GIS, cartography, and data analysis as well as on custom tools to teams of up to 56 GIS professionals to help them adapt to the updated workflow.
•	Led a team of national topographic database update program from planning to final database production with agile project management practice, performed quality control, and maintained meta-data for the produced data.
•	Created deep learning models for land cover and land use segmentation from satellite images and parcel boundary detection in aerial photographs.
•	Facilitated collaboration among representatives of several ministries of the Government of Nepal in the national topographic database update program.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ The University of Alabama
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Tuscaloosa, AL
•	Taught spatiotemporal analysis and visualization of weather data to undergraduate students.
•	Created and proctored tests, evaluated the learning of 90 students, and provided feedback for achieving learning goals
•	Served as judge for undergraduate research and poster presentation

### Graduate Research Assistant @ The University of Alabama
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
•	Developed ETL pipelines to run Python, R, and JavaScript scripts for accessing and preprocessing data and imageries from databases and web APIs.
•	Executed machine learning on a cluster of computers for land change simulation and object detection using big remote sensing data.
•	Automated hyperparameter tuning process resulting in a 3% increase in overall accuracy in the land change prediction model.

### Graduate Council Fellow @ The University of Alabama
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

### Geographic Information System Expert @ ADMC Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal
•	Integrated CAD, GIS, and tabular data into a unified geodatabase for downstream analysis resulting in a 50% reduction in data quality issues.
•	Performed spatial and statistical analysis of land use data for 6 municipalities of Nepal and prepared technical reports.
•	Prepared proposal drafts, and progress reports on 1 district-level land use mapping project and presented them in front of stakeholders.
•	Collaborated with web developers to create dashboards, maps, and the company’s and client’s websites.
•	Designed and optimized a database for a restaurant and wrote scripts for enabling secure booking and ordering, sales summary, and visualization.


## Education
### Master's degree in Geography
The University of Alabama

### Bachelors in Geomatics Engineering
Tribhuvan University, IOE, Pashchimanchal Campus


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pratikdh
- Portfolio: https://pratik-tan10.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-10