I'm Amrit Sharma. I live in Toronto, where I work on air quality, climate resilience, and open data.

I've been building air quality tools since 2015, starting with Smokey, a chatbot that delivered real-time pollution reports in Hindi, Nepali, Bengali, and a dozen other languages. It reached 19 countries and 740,000 reports before I moved on to the next thing.

Since then I've launched Pradooshan.com for PM2.5 forecasts across Indian cities, OMGwildfires.com for tracking wildfire, air quality and smoke in Canada and the US, and BreathingKills.com to show the life expectancy cost of PM2.5 exposure. I'm also a board member of OpenAQ, the world's largest open-source air quality data platform.

My day job is Senior Developer Advocate at ecobee. The work is about grid resiliency — demand response programs that enroll smart thermostats to prevent blackouts during heat emergencies and extreme winter events. I think of it as applied climate infrastructure.

In 2019, the U.S. Department of State selected me as one of 14 Expert Trainers for TechCamp Kathmandu: Clean Air for South Asia. I've also spoken at OpenAQ workshops in Delhi and Sarajevo, and delivered a talk at API World 2023 on real-time data as climate infrastructure.