Alexey Pechnikov
Independent Contractor at Upwork
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Pechnikov is a data scientist and software engineer with a MSc in Radio Physics and over 17 years of applied experience building large-scale geospatial, ML and scientific software for government, academia and companies like Google and LG. He specializes in forward/inverse modeling in nonlinear optics, interferometry and holography—work that won a national physics prize and seeded open-source projects InSAR.dev and Geo3D.dev (including the widely used pygmtsar tool). As an independent contractor and long-time Upwork top performer, he architects and supports complex industrial and research systems, from multi-regional telecom data pipelines to large-scale remote sensing processing. Based in Chiang Mai, he combines hands-on coding, academic teaching experience, and public writing on Medium/LinkedIn to translate hard physics into production-ready geoscience and ML solutions.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Radio Physics, Master's degree Radio Physics at State University of Nizhni Novgorod named after N.I. Lobachevsky (UNN)
English, Russian
Github Skills (151)
python10
insar10
fractal10
3d10
earth-science10
netcdf10
scientific-computing10
flooding10
earthquake10
paraview10
3d-models10
shapefile10
raster10
spectrum10
topography10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
AlexeyPechnikov/pygmtsar
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
PyGMTSAR (Python InSAR): Powerful and Accessible Satellite Interferometry
Contributions:1 release, 519 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
insarpythonearth-observationearth-scienceearthquake
AlexeyPechnikov/articles
Feb 2018 - Nov 2023
Contributions:154 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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