Resume

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I’m Craig Dsouza - Builder with experience developing and shipping open source SaaS products for geospatial analyses. Tried my hand at building and selling groundwater sensors. Now pivoting to physical AI - C++ & Deep Learning for embedded systems.

I’m motivated by hard technological challenges that when solved improve human well-being. Technically strong software developer, high agency , strong with AI workflows.

Curious, obsessed with learning and building products that matter.

Career Highlights

Water, Environment, Land and Livelihoods (WELL) Labs
Product Manager · Apr 2023 - Dec 2025
Led engineering team to build a scalable geospatial SaaS product for water security monitoring, growing it from concept to 20+ users across six organisations.

Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)
Data & Tech Lead · Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
Built data pipelines to facilitate geospatial data access for environmental research at the Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation.

Connected Farms India
Co-Founder · Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
Envisioned, developed and shipped a low-cost IoT groundwater level sensor end-to-end, from hardware design to market, with a team of three.

Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
GIS Consultant · Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Implemented a Postgres/PostGIS and Google Earth Engine geospatial architecture for plot-scale crop advisory in the Farm Precise App.

INREM Foundation
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist · Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Designed statistically valid household surveys and the technical stack for implementation across 5 districts and analysed data to derive insights for a water quality and health programme.

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
Independent Researcher · Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Coded remote sensing–based drought indices on the Google Earth Engine cloud platform for agricultural water management research.

Paani Foundation
Project Coordinator / Independent Researcher · Jun 2018 - May 2019
Led the team that built a web app to visualise remote sensing indicators (land use, sown area, soil moisture) across ~100 villages in Maharashtra.

Deep Griha Society
Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist · Jun 2017 - Feb 2020
Built digital data collection and management systems using ODK Collect/Central for impact assessment of development programmes.

Datameet
Independent Researcher & Project Co-ordinator · Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Led a team of four to build a web app for open access to remotely sensed water data, after raising funding and forming partnerships.

Society for Promoting Participative Ecosystem Management
Research Associate · Nov 2013 - Feb 2017
Developed RS/GIS datasets to track agricultural land use and industrial development, informing civil society water policy debate.

University of Delaware
Graduate Research Associate · Aug 2011 - May 2013
Researched legacy pollutant remediation and urban green infrastructure strategies at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy.