Gerrit Balindt
IT-Consultant at Thünen-Institut
Austria
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Top SchoolGerrit Balindt is an IT consultant and forestry-focused software developer with 11 years of experience managing projects end-to-end—from concept and procurement to development, release, and UX optimization. He blends domain expertise in forest inventories, monitoring and supply-chain digitization with hands-on app and full‑stack development for research institutes, industry partners and NGOs across Austria and Germany. His work spans bespoke mobile apps, data standards (ELDAT smart) and visualization tools that translate machine-captured field data into operational insights for forestry professionals. Comfortable moving between research and product contexts, he brings a rare combination of forestry science training (M.Sc. in Forest IT and related degrees) and practical software delivery, often building solutions that let field teams collect and access data without interrupting work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Multimedia Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Multimedia Arts at SAE InstituteMaster of Science - MS Forest Information Technology (M.Sc.), Master of Science - MS Forest Information Technology (M.Sc.) at Fachhochschule EberswaldeMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Life Sciences - Applied Agricultural and Forestry, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Life Sciences - Applied Agricultural and Forestry at Berner Fachhochschule BFHMaster of Science (M.Sc.) International Management of Forest Industries, Master of Science (M.Sc.) International Management of Forest Industries at University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan Freising
German, English
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Github Skills (24)
media-player8
deploying8
github-enterprise8
webgl7
git7
javascript7
machine-learning7
plugin7
video-player7
media7
https-server7
streaming7
video-streaming6
deep-learning6
typescript6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
b-lack/qgis-fim-plugin
May 2023 - Jan 2025
QGIS plugin FIM - Forest Inventory and Monitoring
Contributions:56 releases, 1 review, 20 PRs in 1 year 8 months
forestryinventorymonitoringpluginqgis-plugin
Thuenen-Forest-Ecosystems/TFM-postgres-docker
May 2024 - Nov 2024
Database for Terrestrial Forest Monitor
Contributions:1 release, 278 PRs, 257 pushes in 5 months
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