Alessandro Gentile
Remote Sensing Data Scientist - Software Architect
Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessandro Gentile is a Remote Sensing Data Scientist and Software Architect with nine years of experience applying satellite and UAV imagery, GIS, and biophysical models across marine, terrestrial, and agricultural ecosystems. He has driven operational geospatial projects for the European Commission and the Joint Research Centre, built wildfire emissions and dispersion pipelines, and currently architects hyperspectral and precision farming solutions in the space economy. Trained as a PhD in Remote Sensing and Precision Viticulture, he blends deep domain science with practical software engineering—writing integrative Python/GDAL pipelines and model interfaces to turn research models into operational services. Based in Florence, he pairs academic rigor and field experience (including NASA collaboration) with production-focused system design, enabling actionable environmental insights at scale.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Course of Remote Sensing applied in Marine Ecology., Remote sensing / Marine Ecology / Environmental Monitoring, Summer School, Course of Remote Sensing applied in Marine Ecology., Remote sensing / Marine Ecology / Environmental Monitoring, Summer School at European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN), RomeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Remote Sensing / GIS / Precision Viticulture, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Remote Sensing / GIS / Precision Viticulture at Università degli Studi di Palermo
English, Italian, German
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Github Skills (19)
biodiversity8
matching8
traits8
taxonomy7
backbone7
geospatial-visualization6
ecology6
ckan5
fuzzy5
large-scale5
fuzzy-matching5
camera4
image-processing4
camera-calibration4
scale4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
alegent/Bioinformatics
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
idiv-biodiversity/LCVP
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
The Leipzig Catalogue of Vascular Plants
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
catalogueleipzigbiodiversityplantsvascular
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