Biography
Jin IGARASHI is senior software engineer specializing in GIS field with 10 years of work experience in Japan and Eastern Africa. Developed various GIS applications in Fujitsu at the beginning of my career in Japan. Then, worked in Eastern Africa for water supply management by using GIS. Developed GIS systems for assets management of water supply facilities and Non-Revenue Water management and conducted trainings for FOSS4G (Free and Open Source for Geospatial) applications such as QGIS and PostGIS. Since 2020, I am involved in the development of Mapbox Vector Tiles application, and I am personally contributing my own open source projects for water utilities in Eastern Africa. In addition, I am also contributing to translate some QGIS documents and QGIS mobile solution - QField and Input to Japanese language.
If you would like to support my open source activities for water services providers in Africa, please make donattion through Github sponsor.
Interests
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Non-Revenue Water(NRW) management
- Minor foreign language - Maasai, Swahili, etc.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and Korean history, 2009
Tokai University, Japan
Chinese language, SCHOOL OF CHINESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE, 2007
Beijing University, China
Skills
GIS
QGIS
QField
Input
ArcGIS
GIS Server
QGIS Server/Lizmap
MapServer
GeoServer
Mapbox Vector Tile
United Nation Vector Tile Toolkits
ArcGIS Server
WATER
Non-Revenue Water Management
Hydraulic modeling - EPANET
Asset Management
PROGRAMING
Python
JavaScript
Java
VB.NET
DATABASE
PostgreSQL/PostGIS
SQL Server
Oracle
MS Access
LANGUAGE
Japanese
English
Chinese
Swahili
Maasai
Korean