Fernando Benitez-paez
Lecturer In Spatial Data Science
St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolFernando Benitez-paez is a Lecturer in Spatial Data Science at the University of St Andrews with nine years of experience bridging academic research, policy impact analysis, and industry GIS practice. His work spans GIScience, urban analytics and data fusion methods, including measuring COVID-19 policy impacts at The Alan Turing Institute and evaluating real reuse of open geographic data for European cities during his PhD. He combines deep technical fluency with applied deployment experience from leading a geographic innovation team and managing developer programs at Esri Colombia, helping national agencies implement robust GIS platforms. Comfortable moving between research and production, he designs user-centric open data strategies that align municipal priorities with community demand. Fluent in both academic publishing and stakeholder-facing consultancy, he brings a rare mix of rigorous spatial-methods expertise and hands-on systems delivery.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral Degree - PhD, Doctoral Degree - PhD at Universitat Jaume ICadastral and Geodesic Engineer, Cadastral and Geodesic Engineer at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (41)
earth10
synthetic9
satellite-imagery9
gps9
swarm9
change-detection9
spatial-analysis8
catalyst8
earth-observation8
simulation8
jupyter-widget7
geopandas7
python7
deep-learning6
scalar6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GeoTecINIT/OpenData4OpenCities
Jan 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:118 commits, 114 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
mfbenitezp/scikit-eo_new
Mar 2024 - Jul 2025
A Python package for Remote Sensing Data Analysis
Contributions:1 release, 21 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 4 months
data-analysispython
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