Biography

Jin IGARASHI is Senior software engineer specializing in GIS, water and sanitation fields with more than 13 years of work experience in Japan and Eastern Africa. Holding MSc (Eng) on Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering degree with distinction from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. Developed various GIS applications in Fujitsu at the beginning of my career in Japan. Then, worked in Eastern Africa (Kenya and Rwanda) for water assets management and Non-Revenue Water (NRW) management as a GIS specialist in Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)’s projects. During JICA projects’ period, I developed several open source software to support them to manage water assets, these activities now become GIS for Water organization in GitHub, and I am maintaining this software.

Academically, I studied full lifecyle costs of urban sanitation systems as my MSc dissertation. I conducted data collection in Narok town, Kenya, analysed and estimated how much was the life cycle costs across the entire sanitation value chain (transport from households to treatment facilities and dispose human excreta). Because of my experience of GIS and water & sanitation, I am very much interested in working in the water sector in developing countries by applying GIS technologies.

Interests
  • Geographic Information System (GIS)
  • Water, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion (WaSH)
  • Non-Revenue Water(NRW) management
  • Minor foreign language - Maasai, Swahili, etc.
Education
  • MSc Water, Sanitation and Health Engineering, 2022

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

  • 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

WATER

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion (WaSH)

Non-Revenue Water Management

Hydraulic modeling - EPANET

Asset Management

GIS

QGIS

QField

Input

ArcGIS

GIS Server

QGIS Server/Lizmap

MapServer

GeoServer

Mapbox Vector Tile

United Nation Vector Tile Toolkits

ArcGIS Server

PROGRAMING

Python

JavaScript (Vuejs)

Java

VB.NET

DATABASE

PostgreSQL/PostGIS

SQL Server

Oracle

MS Access

LANGUAGE

Japanese

English

Chinese

Swahili

Maasai

Korean

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
United Nations Development Programme(UNDP)
GIS Developer
Dec 2021 – Present New York (Work remotely from UK)

Develop GIS platform in SDG Integration Team, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support

Individual contractor - GIS Consultant (part time) from December 2021 to September 2022

IPSA-9 Short term - GIS Developer (full time) from September 2022 to the present

 
 
 
 
 
Geolonia Inc.
Software engineer
Aug 2021 – Mar 2022 Japan
Development of Open Source GIS Software regarding to vector tiles as a part time
 
 
 
 
 
Software engineer
Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 Japan
Development of WebGIS application as a freelancer
 
 
 
 
 
MIERUNE, Inc.
Software engineer
Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 Hokkaido, Japan
Develop GIS applications by using FOSS4G software.
 
 
 
 
 
Software engineer
Jan 2020 – Sep 2020 Tokyo, Japan
Develop and operate the most popular web map service in Japan which is called “MAPION”. The system uses Tile Map Service and Mapbox Vector Tile service on Amazon Web Service (AWS).
 
 
 
 
 
KOKUSAI KOGYO CO., LTD.
GIS Consultant
Apr 2017 – Dec 2019 Tokyo, Japan
As an expert, I joined the several projects funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
 
 
 
 
 
NAROK WATER AND SEWERAGE SERVICES CO., LTD.
GIS Specialist (JICA Volunteer)
Apr 2014 – Sep 2016 Narok, Kenya
Worked as a GIS specialist funded by JICA and conducted GIS mapping and some improvements of Non-Revenue Water management.
 
 
 
 
 
FUJITSU SOCIAL SCIENCE LABORATORY, LTD.
Software engineer
Apr 2009 – Mar 2017 Kanagawa, Japan
Conducted software developments, especially for GIS system for total 6 years.

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