Etienne Racine
Data Scientist
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolEtienne Racine is a Data Scientist and Product Owner at Intact’s Centre for Climate and Geospatial Analytics with 13 years of experience turning remote sensing, LiDAR and spatial data into operational risk products that inform climate-adjusted pricing and strategic planning. He blends rigorous forestry and remote sensing research (PhD-level training) with hands-on engineering—contributing to core geospatial tooling like the widely used r-spatial sf package by improving geometry handling and database integration. Previously he led remote sensing innovation at WSP, building web apps and AI workflows to detect urban trees, map mining operations, and integrate 3D data into engineering projects. Comfortable shipping production models and iterating products with stakeholders, he brings a rare mix of domain expertise, open-source impact, and product instinct to climate risk analytics.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophiæ doctor (Ph. D.), Forest sciences, Philosophiæ doctor (Ph. D.), Forest sciences at Université LavalSeth Godin's altMBA
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
gdal10
postgresql10
database-design10
r10
wkt9
vector6
heatmap6
duplicates6
duplicate-data6
esri6
ggplot6
plot6
geospatial6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
r-spatial/sf
Dec 2016 - Feb 2021
Simple Features for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:1 review, 128 commits, 55 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Etienne primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `sf` package, with a focus on geometric operations and database integration. Their work involved fixing bugs related to color computation and geometry preservation during data selection operations. They also implemented features such as handling multiple geometry columns. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the database interface and database tests in the repository, by adding support for views and materialized views in databases and fixing CRS handling.
r-packagespatialgeosrstatsgdal
etiennebr/visualraster
Jun 2013 - Jun 2016
Illustrate some operations of the raster package
Contributions:36 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 3 years
pythonraster
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