Mansour Raad is a senior software engineer at Esri and Esri’s BigData Advocate. As part of Esri’s development team, he helps users implement Big Data solutions with ArcGIS server. He is also a Cloudera Certificate Hadoop Developer and HBase Specialist. You can catch Mansour at the Esri UC this July, presenting technical workshops.
Esri's Mansour Raad - pretending to be shy.
What is your background?
I was born in Lebanon and went to high school in France. I received my Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University. I’ve been doing GIS since 1987. It’s been so long I can’t even remember the specific version of ArcInfo I first learned!
How many Esri UCs have you attended?
I’ve only missed one since 1995 - when my daughter Caroline was born.
What are some hot topics you and your team will be covering at this year’s UC?
I’ll be covering the topics I am passionate about including BigData ingestion, processing and visualization.
What are you preparing for this year?
Return of Killer Apps with my good friend Sajit Thomas - it is always a crowd pleaser.
Why do you like maps?
Maps are a great way to tell a BigData story.
Aside from your software presentations, what do you look most forward to each year at the
conference?
I really love to talk to users and hear their feedback.
When you are aren’t at Esri creating software, what do you most like to do?
I am really into road biking. I have a tradition to bike from Redlands to San Diego for the User Conference with my best friend Russell.
This distance is called a 200 metric century and takes us about seven hours.
Catch Mansour at the Esri UC – register now!