Claudia Vitolo
Earth Observation Service Manager
Italy
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Top SchoolClaudia Vitolo is an Earth Observation Service Manager at ESA with nearly five decades of experience blending geospatial analytics, big data and web standards to turn satellite and meteorological science into operational services. She has steered digital-twin and high-impact weather applications, developed multiple R packages for model calibration and environmental data retrieval, and built production-ready geospatial web services across academia and international agencies. A PhD hydrologist with a strong grounding in civil and hydraulic engineering, she moves fluently between research, software engineering and system administration—having set up servers, databases and reproducible tooling for teams. Claudia is also a community builder: co-founder of R-Ladies Global and WomenInGeospatial, she champions inclusive open-source ecosystems while shipping robust analytics for wildfire danger, air pollution and hydrology.
48 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Degree Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Degree Civil and Hydraulic Engineering at Università degli Studi di SalernoPh.D. Hydrology, Ph.D. Hydrology at Imperial College LondonMaster Environmental Management and Protection (Gestione e Difesa del Territorio), Master Environmental Management and Protection (Gestione e Difesa del Territorio) at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italian, English
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Github Skills (124)
starter-kit10
hydrology10
government-data10
sepa10
r10
r-package10
open-data10
discovery10
curve10
earth10
calibration10
traits10
journal9
api9
ropensci9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cvitolo/rnrfa
Jul 2014 - Feb 2021
RNRFA: an R package to interact with the UK National River Flow Archive
Contributions:10 releases, 197 commits, 13 PRs in 6 years 7 months
r-packagenationalriverrstatsarchive
cvitolo/amca
Sep 2014 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 44 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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