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Sajjad Anwar
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Maps. Coffee. Engineering & Growth
@developmentseed.org. Previously @Mapbox.com.

📍Bangalore, India
Just arrived in Chennai to be at the NISAR satellite launch this evening from Satish Dhawan Space Centre as a NASA guest. I'm so honored to see this monumental collaboration between NASA and ISRO! science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/
July 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Favourite bookstore in the city 🤝favourite cafe in the city. The new Champaca bookstore, that’s sharing space with Copper + Cloves and No Nasties, is lovely! #Bangalore
April 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I'm so excited for this! Being able to preview work-in-progress directly in Jupyter without 'bouncing' to QGIS.
April 14, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Spent last week in Singapore attending #GeoConnectAsia2025, hanging out with some map needs, and enjoying delicious meals!
April 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Eid Mubarak!
March 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Once again, openness. "The most interesting battle over AI may not be between the US and China, but between closed and closing societies, and nations that remain open to free speech and scholarship." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/column...
The AI race shows no country can go it alone
The rise of China’s DeepSeek reveals the weaknesses of isolationism as an economic policy
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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1/ 🚀 Solving #NASA ’s cloud data dilemma: Icechunk unlocks 100x faster access to archival data formats

We're thrilled to publish results from our pilot project with NASA and @developmentseed.org to enable high-performance cloud-native access for NASA’s 100s of petabytes of Earth observation data.
March 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Went to Misinfocon yesterday. Haven't been to an event like this in Bangalore for so long! Learnt so much about what people are building to mitigate and educate around cyber scams, deep fakes and general lack of trust.
March 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
4.30am coffee
March 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
This is so delightful!
New issue of The HTML Review, “an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web”. Love the TOC interface — the web can still be fun! [thehtml.review]
March 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
"More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008". www.theguardian.com/environment/...
More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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New Groundwork 02, our latest batch of experimental tools and open-source contributions, explores: 👇 :

📌 STAC APIs with stac-geoparquet
📌 AI-powered knowledge management
📌 Wildfire response data resources
📌 STAC Auth Proxy for access control
📌 GPU-native xarray workflows

ds.io/groundwork-02
March 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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We launched a fun, educational project on cloud-native data formats. Our zine, 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, follows C.O.R.A and Vector, as they help scientists around the world tackle challenges with the aid of cloud data formats such as COG, Zarr, and Geoparquet.
ds.io/cloud-native-zine
March 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Looking through @malabartearoom.bsky.social's cookbooks to find a soup recipe for iftar today. Our friend is sending sandwiches. Mmm
March 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Please share! 👇

I know the job market is wacky right now with all the unjustly laid off federal employees. Come work with us and continue to make a difference!
🚀 We’re Hiring: Senior Accountant & Financial Analyst 🌍

Join Development Seed to shape finance processes, support global impact projects, and work with a mission-driven, remote team tackling the world’s toughest challenges.

📍 Remote | 💼 $90k–$125k

Apply now: developmentseed.org/careers/seni...
March 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Ramadan Mubarak! I've been waking up at 4.30am every day and making coffees. I'm a morning person for exactly 30 days a year.
March 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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SatCamp Tickets are Live! Join us for SatCamp 2025: Resilience Through Uncharted Terrain!
📍 Boulder, CO | Sept 24-26
🎟️ Register now: satcamp.xyz
Let’s shape the future of geospatial together! 🌍🔥 #SatCamp2025
SatCamp 2025
SatCamp is a conference unlike anything you have ever attended. September 24-26, 2025. Boulder, Colorado, USA.
satcamp.xyz
March 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
studio.camp is at the MoMa! So incredible to see Shaina, Ashok, @batpad.bsky.social and the rest of CAMP crew's work last week. I've learned so much from Sanjay about videos over the years -- for telling powerful stories of people and places. www.moma.org/calendar/exh...
March 1, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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A few pics from Day 1 of Team Week.
February 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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There are a lot of things happening that are out of my control. One thing I can do is give my time towards something where I can meaningfully contribute. That is what motivated me to run for the @osmus.bsky.social Board.

You can read my statement here: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Foundat...
Foundation/Local Chapters/United States/Elections/2025 - OpenStreetMap Wiki
wiki.openstreetmap.org
February 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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ProPublica has launched a handy tracker to keep tabs on who’s who among Musk’s little fash goons projects.propublica.org/elon-musk…
February 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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💾 Presenting cloud optimized satellite data
🔬 Refining with powerful analysis tools
🌍 Predicting environmental futures using AI
🎯 Prescribing actionable recommendations

🏝️⛵ Explore how we're tracing the routes of EO tools @developmentseed.org : developmentseed.org/blog/2025-01...
The Earth Data Value Journey — Development Seed
Transforming data into valuable insights.
developmentseed.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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We have just shipped a solution for managing storage quotas in JupyterHub with @developmentseed.org 🚀

No more worrying about users filling up shared storage space. Check out our blog post for more: https://2i2c.org/blog/2025/per-user-storage-quota/
Enforcing per-user storage quotas with `jupyterhub-home-nfs` | 2i2c
When sharing a storage disk between users, as is usually the case in a JupyterHub deployment, it is important to put in guardrails so that one user cannot eat up the whole storage capacity from the…
2i2c.org
January 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I sat down with @geospatial.money to discuss #LAfires and disaster response. TL;DR we invest $10s of billions in building, launching, and operating EO satellites. Isn't it time we allocate just 1% of that to improving user access, open data, tools, and dissemination?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOFS...
Development Seed on the LA Fires
YouTube video by The Geospatial Index
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM