Islam is a technology consultant with more than 25 years of experience delivering GIS, land administration, agri-tech and public-sector digital systems for governments and development partners including the World Bank, DFID/FCDO, the African Development Bank and GIZ.
He led delivery of the Presidency’s national performance-management platform for the Central Results Delivery Coordination Unit, a programme supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office within a results-delivery ecosystem that includes the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
From 2014 to 2017 he managed ICT for DFID’s GEMS3 Lands Project across northern Nigeria, introducing open-source software, OCR and barcode workflows into systematic land titling. Earlier, he was a core developer on Nigeria’s first integrated state tax system, built a GPS vehicle-tracking start-up, and delivered systems in Malaysia while completing his MSc.
He combines hands-on engineering (PostGIS, QGIS, web mapping, drones and open-source stacks) with programme leadership across multi-state teams, and is now extending the practice into agentic AI for small businesses on local language-model stacks.
Full experienceRoles, advisory work and technical expertise
- 2014–2017
GEMS3 Lands Project (DFID)IT Consultant and Northern Nigeria Systems ManagerManaged ICT for Systematic Land Titling and Registration across northern states. Introduced open-source software, OCR and barcode workflows. Built a multi-user system covering field capture through to Certificate of Occupancy issuance.
- 2012–2015
easyGIS LtdIT Consultant and GIS Projects CoordinatorDelivered a traceable relief-distribution system (₦70m, with Jaiz Bank) for households affected by the insurgency. Delivered a supporter-management and crowd-funding platform for a national campaign.
- 2012–2013
Independent consultancy, Malaysia (alongside MSc studies)ConsultantBuilt the MIFF Halal Certification System, a paperless online certification platform with an Android verification app, barcoded certificates and management reporting on expiries and flagged companies. Designed the branding and interface for mobilemdx.com, a medical resource-exchange portal with an intranet hospital and clinic information system.
- 2010–2012
TeliMatix International, AbujaFounder and Head of R&DLaunched a GPS vehicle-tracking start-up and its customer vehicle-status portal. Piloted fuel-theft monitoring for oil-transport companies, combining satellite tracking with industrial fuel sensors feeding a central analytics server.
- 2005–2013
Inteliworx Technologies, KadunaCore DeveloperElection Reporting and Monitoring System (eramsng.com, 2010–2011), transmitting live results from polling units by mobile phone during the 2011 general elections. Bauchi State Integrated Tax System (2009–2013), the first integrated tax system in Nigeria. Bayero University Kano course-registration portal for 40,000+ students (2008–2010). Police Service Commission National Data Bank, an HR system for 400,000+ officers that addressed delayed promotions and centralised disciplinary records (2008–2009). Design and supervision of a 100-terminal data network for the National Industrial Court in Kano and Maiduguri (2008–2009).
AdvisoryIT consultant to Adam Smith International, LINX Spatial Systems and the Kano State Bureau for Land Management.
Design3D architectural visualisation (Blender, 3ds Max, V-Ray), interface design and usability analysis for software products.
- GIS and remote sensing
- QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS, PCI Geomatica, ENVI, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GPS, drones, satellite imagery analysis
- Software development
- PHP (Yii2), Frappe, ERPNext, Drupal, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Perl, UNIX shell, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi
- Data
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS Access
- AI and language models
- Agentic AI systems, Hermes Agent, DeepSeek harness, LLM memory integration (Hermes, Cognee), local model deployment (llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, MLX, oMLX)
- Design and media
- Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects; Blender, 3ds Max, V-Ray
- Platforms
- Linux/Unix, Windows, macOS; DigitalOcean; Mergin Maps; payroll and accounting systems