Erik Escoffier
Senior Software Engineer at Octopus Energy
Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Escoffier is a Data Visualisation Engineer with 13 years of experience turning complex energy and climate datasets into clear, interactive narratives for products and public audiences. Currently at Octopus Energy, he blends deep frontend and geospatial technical skills—TypeScript, React, D3, Mapbox GL, deck.gl and PostGIS—with design-led thinking to drive insight and impact. He co-founded Satellite Studio and previously built visualization tooling for organizations like Global Fishing Watch and Development Seed, showing a track record of shipping production-grade maps and apps. Comfortable in distributed teams, he partners with engineers, designers, researchers and policymakers to make data actionable beyond the dashboard. He also speaks regularly at industry conferences, reflecting a commitment to advancing open-source geospatial and dataviz practice.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
CRMA, Multimedia design and development, interaction design, CRMA, Multimedia design and development, interaction design at Ecole des Gobelins ParisDUT SRC, Communication, graphic design, development, networks, DUT SRC, Communication, graphic design, development, networks at IUT Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux III
French, English, Spanish, Dutch, German
Github Skills (125)
mapbox-gl10
javascript10
monorepo10
maps10
webgl10
economy10
vector-tiles10
typescript10
coordinates10
commercial10
fishing10
csharp10
google-maps-api10
visualization10
mapbox-gl-js10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nerik/leaflet-graphicscale
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
[DEPRECATED] A graphic scale for Leaflet.js that looks sharp
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 1 month
leafletjs
satellitestudio/osm-haiku
Apr 2018 - Feb 2020
Generate pointless haikus about a place from OpenStreetMap data
Contributions:47 commits, 12 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 9 months
openstreetmap-data
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