Alvaro Huarte
Geospatial Software & Data Engineer
Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvaro Huarte is a Geospatial Software & Data Engineer with 12+ years of experience building EO-focused geoprocessing pipelines, GIS applications and cloud-native data platforms for Copernicus and Landsat workflows. He combines low-level expertise in C/C++ and Java with Python-driven data engineering, deploying scalable services on Kubernetes and AWS/Azure while implementing OGC-compliant web services and WPS modules. His background spans on-premise to big-data stacks (Hadoop, GeoWave) and databases (Postgres, MongoDB), and he has hands-on experience automating builds and fixes in prominent open-source projects like GeoServer, GeoTools and DuckDB. Known for pragmatically translating complex geospatial requirements into production ETL/ELT pipelines and microservices, he also contributes tooling and reliability patches upstream — a detail that underscores both his operational focus and commitment to the community. Based in Pamplona, he is actively bridging geospatial engineering with emerging AI/data-science techniques to accelerate EO analytics.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Industrial Mecánica Energética, Ingeniero Industrial Mecánica Energética at Universidad Pública de Navarra
Spanish, English
Github Skills (25)
geotools10
wps10
geoserver10
databases10
webmap10
geospatial10
wcs10
analytics10
java10
data-filtering10
mappings10
javas10
sql10
build-automation10
version-control10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
geoserver/geoserver
Mar 2015 - Sep 2020
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 18 PRs, 89 comments in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alvaro primarily contributed to the GeoServer project by fixing bugs related to WCS and WPS functionalities. They addressed issues in coverage transforms within the WCS 1.1.1 module and resolved problems in the WPS core, specifically related to searching WPS result items by name and improving the handling of multi-output processes. Additionally, the user updated the wps-sextante module to compile with Sextante libraries, and fixed the extraction of null values of a coverage. These changes involved modifications to Java code and test cases, highlighting a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of the GeoServer web mapping platform.
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geotools/geotools
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 58 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alvaro primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the GeoTools project, specifically addressing issues in the processing and data handling modules. Their work involved modifying Java code to correct errors related to affine transformations, improve the Dbase reader, and implement the `matchCase` functionality for WFS requests. The user demonstrated expertise in Java, spatial data processing, and data filtering.
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