Javier De La Torre
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJavier De La Torre is a founder and strategic technology leader with 15+ years building pioneering geospatial and location-intelligence ventures, best known for founding CARTO and earlier Vizzuality. He combines scientific roots in biodiversity and conservation with product-driven entrepreneurship to democratize spatial data analysis and visualization for non-coders. As CARTO’s CSO and former CEO he has scaled the company into a leading geospatial platform while forging partnerships with data providers, standards bodies, and policy organizations. Javier’s background in biodiversity informatics and long involvement in standards development (TDWG, OGC) give him a rare ability to translate complex scientific data needs into practical, widely-adopted tools. He teaches and advises across academia, foundations, and industry, and holds executive training from Stanford GSB alongside engineering degrees from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Freie Universität Berlin. Not obvious: his career began as a conservation scientist, which continues to anchor his mission-driven approach to product strategy and open data.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Executive education Innovation and Growth with Endeavor, Executive education Innovation and Growth with Endeavor at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessAgriculture Engineer Biodiversity Informatics, Agriculture Engineer Biodiversity Informatics at Freie Universität BerlinAgriculture Engineer Major, Agriculture Engineer Major at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (114)
geojson10
procedures10
geography10
h310
spatial10
location10
sql10
geolocation10
geofencing10
location-services10
databricks10
geofence10
hierarchical10
geospatial10
indexing10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jatorre/h3
Oct 2019 - Jun 2022
Hexagonal hierarchical geospatial indexing system
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
geospatialgeographyindexinghierarchicalh3
jatorre/geoparquet
Mar 2022 - Apr 2024
Specification for storing geospatial vector data (point, line, polygon) in Parquet
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 years 1 month
geospatialparquetspecificationstoringvector-data
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