Blas Benito
Senior Data Scientist
Greater Granada Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolBlas Benito is a Senior Data Scientist and geospatial tech lead with nearly two decades of research-to-industry experience and nine years focused on building production spatial ML systems. At Biome Makers he architected and scaled soil-mapping pipelines that processed 140,000+ hectares and helped generate €1.5M+ in revenue while leading a distributed team and shaping international expansion. He brings deep expertise in spatial ML, cloud systems and R-based tooling—authoring popular R packages (including spatialRF and time-series libraries with tens of thousands of downloads) and 20+ peer-reviewed publications. Comfortable bridging academia and product, he combines hands-on engineering with scientific rigor, having run funded research projects and taught advanced GIS courses across Europe and Latin America. Less obvious: his background in ecology and long record of open-source R work give him a rare ability to translate ecological science into robust, scalable AgTech products.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Biology and PhD in Global Change Ecology, Ecology, Bachelor's degree in Biology and PhD in Global Change Ecology, Ecology at University of GranadaLicenciado en Biología, biología, Licenciado en Biología, biología at Universidad de GranadaMaster's degree, Geographic Information Systems, Master's degree, Geographic Information Systems at Universitat de Girona
English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
r-package10
sports-data10
variable-selection10
spatial10
random-forest10
time-series9
statistics7
quantitative6
dynamics5
machine-learning5
decomposition5
bioinformatics4
modeling-tool3
power-systems3
meta-analysis2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
BlasBenito/distantia
May 2019 - Feb 2022
R package to compute dissimilarity between multivariate time series
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 104 commits in 2 years 9 months
dissimilaritydynamic-time-warpinglock-steptime-series
BlasBenito/spatialRF
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
R package to fit spatial models with Random Forest
Contributions:5 releases, 583 commits, 1 PR in 2 years
r-packagerandom-forestspatialspatial-modelsrstats
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