Jesse Bakker
Geospatial And Remote Sensing Data Specialist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Bakker is a geospatial and remote sensing data specialist with 11 years of experience turning satellite imagery and GIS into actionable insights for science, planning, and climate justice. Based in Minneapolis, he has built scalable, high-performance workflows for agricultural feature extraction and polar research while working at the Polar Geospatial Center and in academic settings. His background in urban planning and applied geography gives him a practical lens for connecting spatial analysis to policy and community needs, from regional housing collaborations to CDFI research. Comfortable with Python, HPC, and large satellite data stacks, he focuses on reproducible pipelines that support both research and operational decision-making. Off the clock he blends a passion for geography with interests in basketball and climate justice, which inform a collaborative, human-centered approach to technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Geography, Master of Arts - MA Geography at University of MinnesotaUrban Studies and Sustainable Development, Urban Studies and Sustainable Development at Columbia University
Github Skills (2)
facilities4
gis2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PolarGeospatialCenter/pgc-code-tutorials
Feb 2025 - Apr 2025
Tutorials for using PGC data, tools, and workflows
Contributions:7 PRs, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
bakkerbakker/EveryField
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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