Anze Zupanc
Tech Lead at Planet
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Top SchoolAnže Zupanc is a Tech Lead and engineering manager with ~8 years of industry experience and a PhD in physics, blending deep data-science and software-engineering expertise to deliver user-centered ML and AI solutions at scale. Currently enabling five teams at Planet, he specializes in agile experimentation, process optimization, and turning satellite-derived insights into operational products that have supported hundreds of thousands of farmers across Europe. His background spans academic research in high-energy physics, open-source EO tools (eo-learn, sentinelhub-py, s2cloudless) and leading Horizon 2020 scientific projects, giving him a rare mix of rigorous research discipline and product-focused delivery. Known for mentoring and building high-performing, cross-functional teams, he brings practical experience shipping both backend systems and ML-driven analytics into production. An unexpected strength is his early career work developing control and orbit-correction software for major accelerators, reflecting long-standing systems-level engineering instincts.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Gimnazija LavaBachelor of Science (BSc), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics at University of LjubljanaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics at Univerza v Ljubljani
English, Slovenian, German
Stackoverflow
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333reached
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Github Skills (20)
earth-observation10
classification10
machine-learning10
sentinel10
python9
satellite-imagery9
aws9
deep-learning8
gpu8
fastai8
pytorch8
satellite-images6
object-detection5
computer-vision5
segmentation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
azupanc/eo-learn
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Earth observation processing framework for machine learning in Python
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 6 months
pythonobservationearth-observationearthmachine-learning
azupanc/eo-ex
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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