Alexandre Amorim
GIS Specialist at Agência Nacional de Águas
Federal District, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandre Amorim is an experienced GIS specialist with eight years focused on national-scale hydrography and spatial database systems at Brazil’s National Water and Sanitation Agency. He leads technical production of Brazil’s hydrography dataset, architects spatial data models in PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and programs GIS tools using Python, SQL, GDAL/OGR, FME, QGIS and ArcGIS Pro. As founder and core developer of the PgHydro extension, he brings practical open-source contributions that streamline hydrographic workflows and data integrity. He also teaches spatial database systems at the University of Brasília, translating academic models into operational NSDI proposals and training programs. His background blends a PhD in Applied Geosciences with hands-on industry work, from startup geotech services to binational watershed harmonization projects in Canada. Colleagues value him for marrying rigorous spatial database design with pragmatic toolchains to solve complex water-resources challenges.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Database Management System, Certificate, Database Management System at Centro Universitário ICESPMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Diploma, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Marketing, Diploma at Fundação Getulio VargasBritish Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Doctor's Degree, Applied Geosciences, Doctor's Degree, Applied Geosciences at Universidade de Brasília
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
water9
h39
decision-making8
wps8
network-analysis8
geospatial7
elevation7
terrain7
database6
geostatistics6
postgresql6
geology5
hydrology5
postgis5
geopandas5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
deamorim2/pghydro
Aug 2017 - Aug 2022
PgHydro extends the PostGIS/PostgreSQL geospatial database to provide drainage network analysis functionality to help on water resources decision making.
Contributions:4 PRs, 38 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 1 month
decision-makinggeospatialdecisionwater-resourcesh3
deamorim2/sbde
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:252 commits, 240 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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