Alex Gaicd
Executive Director at Geospatial Council of Australia
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Gaicd is an executive leader and cloud-native geospatial technologist with 13 years’ experience building Digital Earth platforms, data pipelines and open-source tools from Hobart, Tasmania. As Founder and now Executive Director of Auspatious and System Architect for Digital Earth Pacific, he blends hands-on engineering, cloud infrastructure design and strategic program delivery to scale continental and regional Earth observation capabilities. He led core technology teams at Digital Earth Australia/Africa and managed multi-million-dollar projects at IMOS, consistently turning petabytes of data into operational products like continental crop masks and coastlines. An active open geospatial contributor, his improvements to the popular Open Data Cube project include Docker, docs and dependency work that eased deployment and adoption. He also brings non-executive governance experience across OSGeo Oceania, Earth Observation Australia and the Geospatial Council of Australia, pairing technical depth with sector stewardship. Outside work he is a hands-on father who often bridges technical strategy with practical, user-focused solutions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Surveying and Spatial Sciences (Hons) GIS Strategic Planning Visualisation Spatio-temporal data analysis, Bachelor of Surveying and Spatial Sciences (Hons) GIS Strategic Planning Visualisation Spatio-temporal data analysis at University of Tasmania
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Github Skills (20)
docker10
python10
dockers10
read-me9
documentation9
scientific-computing8
yaml8
postgresql7
git7
remote-host7
remote-server7
github7
html6
gis6
django-rest-framework6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
opendatacube/datacube-core
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Open Data Cube analyses continental scale Earth Observation data through time
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 75 reviews, 64 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to improving the documentation and updating the Docker configuration for the datacube-core repository. Their commits focused on fixing formatting issues within the README.rst file and updating it with the Docker-related information, as well as adding content to the "What's New" section, and introducing docker compose to enable postgres support. The user also made modifications to the setup.py to handle dependencies, and made changes to the datasets, product and metadata documentation.
datacubeearth-observationpythongisscientific-computing
digitalearthpacific/dep-maps
Sep 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 15 PRs in 2 years 10 months
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