Benoît Guillod
Chief Technology Officer at CLIMADA Technologies
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolBenoît Guillod is a Chief Technology Officer and climatologist with a decade of experience building data-driven NatCat models and parametric insurance solutions for weather and environmental hazards. He combines deep academic training (PhD, ETH Zurich) and postdoctoral work at Oxford with hands-on engineering—shipping real-time data feeds, web applications, and high-volume production analytics at CLIMADA Technologies and CelsiusPro. A contributor to the open-source CLIMADA model and author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, he bridges rigorous climate science with product-focused software development. Known for rapidly prototyping robust systems, he leads multidisciplinary teams to translate complex climate science into operational insurance products and novel risk metrics. Based in Zurich, he brings uncommon domain depth in land–atmosphere interactions and extreme-event attribution to practical commercial risk solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lycée Blaise CendrarsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Sciences at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichIndian Institute of Technology MadrasBachelor of Science BSc, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Bachelor of Science BSc, Environmental Sciences and Engineering at EPFLMaster of Science (MSc), Environmental Sciences, Master of Science (MSc), Environmental Sciences at ETH Zürich
French, English, German, Swahili, Spanish
Github Skills (41)
python10
r-package6
r6
spatial5
formulas5
anova5
highlight5
core-module5
leaflet4
htmlwidgets4
gitignore4
parser4
gis4
matlab4
dplyr3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bguillod/R_generic_funcs
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
bguillod/fld_calib_analysis
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:13 pushes in 7 months
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