Abhishek Saikia
About Abhishek Saikia
Abhishek Saikia is a Product Manager at TomTom in Amsterdam, specializing in navigation and map products for the mobility, logistics, and automotive industries.
Title
Abhishek Saikia is a Product Manager.
Company
Abhishek currently works at TomTom as Product Manager from 2022, based in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
Professional Experience
Abhishek Saikia has extensive experience in the field of navigation, map products, and data operations. He has held the position of Product Manager at Scholastic in Singapore in 2022, and prior to that, he was Assistant Product Manager at Scholastic from 2020 to 2022. At Mapbox, he worked as Program Coordinator, Navigation Data Operations in 2018 and as a Data Analyst from 2015 to 2018. His earlier roles include working as an Image Analyst at Mahatma Education Society in 2015 and as a Research Student at Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, from 2014 to 2015. He also served as a Summer Intern at Oil India Limited in 2012.
Education and Expertise
Abhishek Saikia possesses a strong academic background with specialized studies in geo-information and earth sciences. He holds a Global MBA in Contemporary Marketing Management from SP Jain School of Global Management, earned in 2019. He obtained a Master of Science in Geo information Science and Earth Observation from the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente and a Master of Science in GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), ISRO, both between 2013 and 2015. Additionally, he has an Engineer’s Degree in Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, earned from 2009 to 2013.
Specializations
Abhishek specializes in creating navigation and map products specifically for the mobility, logistics, and automotive industries. He has significant expertise in working with OpenStreetMap for automotive navigation solutions. His work is pivotal in developing basemap navigation for passenger cars, contributing significantly to advancements in this sector.