Benny Istanto
Risk Data Librarian
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenny Istanto is a climate geographer and Risk Data Librarian with over a decade of hands-on experience applying GIS, remote sensing and climate science to international development and disaster risk reduction. Trained as an agricultural meteorologist and a certified GISP, he has built operational tools and national-level systems—from fire danger and food security platforms to hydrometeorological and watershed models—while supporting UN agencies and the World Bank. At the World Bank he blends FAIR data principles with geospatial analytics to make hazard and exposure datasets interoperable for standardized risk insights. He routinely bridges technical development, capacity building and policy-facing uptake, having placed analytical systems in high-level decision rooms such as national situation centers. Known for turning complex satellite and climate models into usable decision tools, he operates at the intersection of science, software and humanitarian impact.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High school, Natural Science, High school, Natural Science at SMA Negeri 1 TubanUndergraduate Degree, Meteorology, Undergraduate Degree, Meteorology at IPB University
English, Indonesian
Github Skills (61)
spi10
intellij9
monitoring9
raster9
vector9
kotlin8
bank8
gdal8
geospatial8
compilation8
portal7
java7
android7
earth7
python7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wfpidn/VAMscript
Jul 2020 - Apr 2026
Compilation of script for earth observation and socio economic data analysis that frequently used by VAM
Contributions:1 PR, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
compilationdata-analysiseconomicobservationearth-observation
ppids-ugm/simpul-jaringan-indonesia
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Daftar simpul jaringan Infrastruktur Data Spasial Indonesia
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes in 4 months
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