Francesco Tonini
Geospatial Data Scientist
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolFrancesco Tonini is a Geospatial Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying AI/ML, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and spatiotemporal modeling to conservation and Earth observation problems. Based in Denver, he leads technical solutions and community efforts at The Nature Conservancy, contributing to the AWS Conservation GeoCloud and managing geospatial workflows for storage, HPC and model deployment. His background bridges rigorous academic research (PhD in Geomatics) with practical tool-building—repositories include models for disease and invasive species spread, CNN-based cultural ecosystem service mapping, and reusable Python/R geospatial libraries. He combines hands-on development of production services and training with vendor/customer management and mentoring of junior staff, and is particularly skilled at integrating scientific models with scalable cloud architectures. An uncommon strength is his track record of turning research-grade spatiotemporal models into operational decision-support tools used in conservation planning.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Statistics for Biomedicine, the Environment, and Technology, 110/110, Master, Statistics for Biomedicine, the Environment, and Technology, 110/110 at Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'Bachelor, Statistics and Information Systems, 107/110, Bachelor, Statistics and Information Systems, 107/110 at Università degli Studi di FirenzeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geomatics, GPA 3.96, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geomatics, GPA 3.96 at University of Florida
English, Italian, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
scales10
environmental10
gis10
geospatial9
ttk9
stochastic9
text-based8
issue-tracking8
oak8
predict7
gui-application7
landscape7
classification-model7
kriging6
gstat6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LANDIS-II-Foundation/Extension-Base-EDA
Sep 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:114 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 3 months
f-tonini/SOD-modeling
Feb 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:128 commits, 16 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 4 months
deathstochasticoaklandscapespread
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