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===Ragi Yaser Burhum===
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===[http://www.about.me/rburhum Ragi Yaser Burhum]===
  
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[[Image:Ragi_Burhum.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Ragi looking down to not face his latest coding output]]
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[[Image:Ragi_Burhum.jpg|thumb|right|112px|Ragi Yaser Burhum]
  
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[http://www.about.me/rburhum Contact Information and Social Network profiles]
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CTO, AmigoCloud Inc
  
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Ragi was born and raised in Perú and currently lives in San Francisco.
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Location: San Francisco, California, USA
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Born: Lima, Perú
  
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He worked at ESRI's Professional Service group (creating production solutions for National Geographic, NGA, UKHO, etc) and later moved to ESRI's GeoDatabase group where he designed/coded/debugged the code related to versioning, editing behavior, spatial caches etc. After 7 years of this, he moved to Microsoft to work in games (Microsoft Flight Simulator). Not adjusting to life in Redmond, he decided to scratch an entrepreneurship itch he had always had. He decided to move to the Bay Area to learn more about startups in Silicon Valley. He immediately fell in love with the startup community.  
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Ragi has worked for over 10+years at various companies in the GIS space (ESRI, Microsoft, etc) where he was responsible for designing and architecting geospatial solutions for governments, non-profit and private institutions. During his career, Ragi has created several hybrid (closed source + OS) GIS solutions that have range from huge servers, to mobile phones and embedded chipsets.
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He is a big proponent of OS geospatial technologies and usually does presentations on the topic.  
  
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Along the way, Ragi ran a [http://www.burhumllc.com/ successful GIS software consulting company] that specialized in combining ESRI and Open Source software stacks and founded a [http://angel.co/modewalk venture-backed luxury fashion startup] (yes, nothing to do with geo!). He is currently working in the latest venture he founded (a mobile-based - iOS/Android - mapping application framework / service).
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;OSGeo experience [[File:OSGeo_charter.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Charter_Members]] [[File:OSGeo_coder.png|link=OSGeo_Coder]] [[File:OSGeo_user.png|link=OSGeo_Advocate#OSGeo_Community_Members]]:
  
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Ragi has contributed to GDAL (creator of [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_ao.html ArcObjects] / [http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html FileGDB driver]) as well as [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/changeset/2556 sprinkled patches throughout some of OSGeo's sponsored projects].
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: [http://about.me/rburhum Contact information]
  
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He is also an active member of the OSGeo CA chapter where he sometimes hosts, helps coordinate meetings for the chapter, or helps with the participation of the chapter in various Bay Area events.
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;Spoken Language(s): Spanish (fluent), English(fluent), German, French(basic)
  
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In addition, he currently runs the most successful Meetup related to geospatial technologies in the world: the [http://www.meetup.com/geomeetup GeoMeetup]. Every meeting gathers 100+ people that come from various companies in the Bay Area (Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple, etc) as well as non-profit organizations.
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;Profile last updated: 17 July 2012
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[[Category:OSGeo Member]]
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[[Category:California]]
  
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When time allows, he speaks at [https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/how-build-your-own-mapping-website-using-open-source-geo-stack different conferences] about [http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/speaker/84109 various topics] to raise awareness about OSGeo - event if it means [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSCON_2009 having to carry, setup, teardown and sit at the booth all day] (what better way to raise awareness about FOSS4G while fixing bugs) :)
 
  
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Revision as of 11:26, 17 July 2012

Ragi Yaser Burhum

[[Image:Ragi_Burhum.jpg|thumb|right|112px|Ragi Yaser Burhum]

CTO, AmigoCloud Inc

Location: San Francisco, California, USA Born: Lima, Perú

Ragi has worked for over 10+years at various companies in the GIS space (ESRI, Microsoft, etc) where he was responsible for designing and architecting geospatial solutions for governments, non-profit and private institutions. During his career, Ragi has created several hybrid (closed source + OS) GIS solutions that have range from huge servers, to mobile phones and embedded chipsets. He is a big proponent of OS geospatial technologies and usually does presentations on the topic.

OSGeo experience OSGeo charter.png OSGeo coder.png OSGeo user.png
Contact
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Spoken Language(s)
Spanish (fluent), English(fluent), German, French(basic)
Profile last updated
17 July 2012



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