Jacob Jeppesen
CEO And Co-Founder at Atla.ai
Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolJacob Jeppesen is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience turning geospatial research into commercial products, leading Atla.ai to deliver end-to-end satellite and aerial data analytics for real-world customers. His background spans a PhD and postdoctoral research at Aarhus University focused on open cloud infrastructures and machine learning for satellite imagery, with published work and a commercialized method for agricultural field heterogeneity. Equally comfortable in research and startup execution, he designs scalable cloud-native pipelines that leverage open NASA/ESA data and OGC standards to reduce costs and speed deployments. Based in Denmark, Jacob blends deep technical expertise in remote sensing and ML with hands-on leadership, overseeing productization from source data to customer integrations. An early electronics engineer who once modeled PLLs for radar, he brings a practical systems mindset that informs both algorithm development and operational deployments.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering at Aarhus UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electronics at Engineering College of AarhusUNSW Sydney
Danish, English, German
Github Skills (72)
datasets10
torchvision10
computer-vision10
earth-observation10
pytorch10
satellite-imagery10
geospatial10
geo10
caffe9
notebook9
python9
deep-learning9
stamen-maps9
manifold9
jupyterlab9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JacobJeppesen/jupyterlite-django-deployment
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
JacobJeppesen/mapproxy
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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