Irina Bastrakova
Consultant at Geospatial Frameworks
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolIrina Bastrakova is a Canberra-based consultant with nine years of focused experience in data strategy, metadata and linked data, and a long career advancing geospatial information management within Australian government agencies. She has led national programs at Geoscience Australia—implementing linked data for location, developing metadata profiles, and advising on standards across ISO, OGC and UN GGIM—while chairing ANZ metadata working groups to harmonise discoverability and access. Known for bridging technical implementation and executive strategy, Irina has designed high-performance scientific data architectures that scale into HPC environments and championed reusable scientific data patterns and vocabularies. Her background as a geologist and database developer gives her a rare combination of domain science, hands-on database engineering and standards leadership, enabling practical, interoperable solutions for complex spatial data ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Structural Geology, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master, Structural Geology, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master at Moscow State University
Russian, English
Github Skills (13)
schematron9
metadata8
ckan8
iso8
data-management7
metadata-management7
gml6
ogc6
querying3
data-format2
linked-data2
transformation2
data-catalog2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
icsm-au/metadata-working-group
Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:218 pushes, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
ibastrak/metadata-working-group
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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