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Muhammad Wahaj Khan

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GIS Specialist • Remote Sensing • Spatial Data & Python Automation
Pakistan
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    GIS District Manager
    Country Survey & Mapping Services (Pvt.) Ltd
    Sep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)
    • Lead end-to-end spatial data operations for a large-scale cadastral survey across 3 tehsils of Mianwali covering millions of parcel-level records across urban, peri-urban, and rural areas.
    • Design and execute field deployment plans using spatial coverage strategies; supervise multiple survey teams and enforce data quality, safety, and SOP compliance in the field.
    • Coordinate with government stakeholders Assistant Commissioners, Tehsildars, and revenue staff to align cadastral data collection with administrative boundaries and official land records.
    • Automate data validation and reporting workflows using Python (ArcPy, NumPy, and Pandas), reducing manual processing time and enabling real-time spatial tracking of survey pr
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    GIS Quality Control Specialist
    Country Survey & Mapping Services (Pvt.) Ltd
    May 2025 - Sep 2025 (5 months)
    • Designed and implemented a multi-stage QA/QC pipeline for large-scale cadastral datasets: geo-referencing → grid alignment → vector digitisation on satellite imagery → topology validation → attribute verification → final delivery.
    • Created and validated 7 critical GIS layers (Khasra, Murabba, Dimension, Mouza Boundary, TJ Points, Acre, and Corners), ensuring topological accuracy and schema compliance across millions of spatial features.
    • Built and maintained versioned geodatabases in ArcCatalog; structured feature datasets for concurrent multi-editor workflows.
    • Automated repetitive QC checks using Python (ArcPy), improving pipeline throughput and reducing error rates across the digitisation team.
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    GIS Engineer
    Municipality Bakeereya Governorate
    Jan 2022 - Mar 2025 (3 years 3 months)
    • Managed end-to-end GIS data workflows for a Saudi government municipality: GPS-based land surveys, digitisation of land records, spatial database maintenance, and map production.
    • Maintained spatial databases and GIS layers in ArcGIS and AutoCAD according to the municipal data schema, ensuring compliance and accessibility for government stakeholders.
    • Produced thematic maps and spatial analysis outputs for municipal infrastructure planning; processed satellite imagery via SAS Planet for geographic analysis.
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    GIS Associate • GIS Assistant
    TechGIS GreenAge Services
    Jun 2021 - Dec 2021 (7 months)
    • Digitised and managed GIS databases; performed spatial data validation and quality control across land record datasets.
    • Built Python (ArcPy) automation scripts to reduce manual GIS workflows; advanced to the QA/QC Team within 2 months and Automation Task Team within 4 months.
    • Promoted from GIS Assistant to GIS Associate within 4 months based on technical performance.
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    RS & GIS Intern
    Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD)
    Dec 2020 - Feb 2021 (3 months)
    • Co-developed a MATLAB and Python implementation of the MODIS Snow Cover Tool with Dr. Furrukh Bashir (Senior Meteorologist), intended for open publication.
    • Processed meteorological and geospatial datasets using ArcGIS and ArcPy; delineated watershed basins of Hunza and Tarbela Dam using DEMs for hydrological research.
    • Digitised mountain range shapefiles of the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayas from satellite imagery for ongoing glaciology and climate research.
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    Trainee GIS Analyst
    Field trend
    Sep 2020 - Dec 2020 (4 months)
    • Developed Python-based data extraction and automation pipelines using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, NumPy, psycopg2, Scrapy, pytesseract, and JSON
    • Performed PostgreSQL/PostGIS database development - spatial querying, custom functions, and query optimisation for analytical projects.
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  • Institute of Space Technology (IST)
    B.Sc. Space Science - Remote Sensing & GIS
    Institute of Space Technology (IST)
    Sep 2016 - Sep 2020 (4 years 1 month)
    Thesis: Lineaments mapping of a Region in Pakistan using Optical and SAR Remote Sensing Data - applied Sentinel-1/2 imagery with PCA, edge detection, and spectral compositing to map geological lineaments of the Potohar Plateau.
    Relevant coursework: Remote Sensing, GIS, Environmental Sciences, Meteorology, Statistics, Mathematics.
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    MODIS Snow Cover Monitoring Tool
    pMD
    Dec 2020 - Feb 2021 (3 months)
    Co-developed a MATLAB and Python replication of the MODIS Snow Cover algorithm with Dr. Furrukh Bashir (PMD) for operational snow and glacial monitoring in Pakistan. Intended for open-access publication.
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    Zika Virus Web Map
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    Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 (6 months)
    Built an interactive time-slider dot proportional web map using JavaScript, Leaflet, GeoJSON, SVG, HTML, and CSS to visualise spatial spread of Zika Virus across US states.
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    Aerosol Data Visualisation
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    Aug 2019 - Jan 2020 (6 months)
    Loaded and visualised NetCDF-format atmospheric aerosol data over Islamabad using Python libraries for environmental analysis.
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    Spatial Database for NGO 'UMEED'
    Ist
    Aug 2018 - Jan 2019 (6 months)
    Designed and deployed a PostgreSQL spatial database to manage school location data across Islamabad, enabling volunteers to optimise routes between schools and the campus.
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    Land Cover Change Detection
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    Aug 2017 - Jan 2018 (6 months)
    Applied supervised classification on Landsat 4-5 imagery to analyse land cover/land use changes in Ireland over a 10-year period.