Joachim Ungar
Geospatial IT Consultant
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJoachim Ungar is a Geospatial IT Consultant and cartographer with 14 years of experience applying open-source geospatial tools to Earth Observation and research projects. Based in Vienna, he leads service activities for the EU EarthServer project at EOX, connecting software developers and system operators across disciplines like oceanography and cryospheric science. He designs global terrain basemaps built entirely from open data and open-source stacks (GDAL, QGIS, PostGIS, MapServer) that are already used by ESA services. A former web developer and World Bank geospatial consultant, he blends hands-on scripting and geoprocessing with project management and domain expertise in climate and population modelling. Colleagues know him as an open-source evangelist and practical problem-solver who moves complex geoscience workflows into production.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mag. rer. nat., Geography, Geoinformation, Cartography, Mag. rer. nat., Geography, Geoinformation, Cartography at University of ViennaAkademisches Gymnasium Salzburg
English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (72)
wgs8410
gdal10
geodata10
cython10
asset-catalog10
data-files10
openmaptiles10
geographic10
pyramid10
rasterio10
tile-server10
tilesets10
ogr10
raster10
vector-tiles10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ungarj/s2reader
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
Simple python module to read Sentinel 2 metadata from SAFE
Contributions:51 commits, 4 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 1 month
python-modulessentinel
ungarj/mapchete_testdata
Jan 2018 - May 2021
testdata for mapchete
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 4 months
testingmapchetetestdata
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