João Pinelo
Head Of Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure, And Development Senior Project Officer
Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Pinelo is a data science and cloud infrastructure leader with 10 years of experience designing systems that tie technical architecture to measurable real-world outcomes. As Head of Data Science, Cloud Infrastructure, and Development at the Atlantic International Research Centre he leads the build-out of a hybrid cloud datacentre and shapes operational data science workflows. His background spans academia and industry—from a PhD in Architecture and postdoctoral research with UCL to founding product and SaaS efforts—bringing a rare blend of spatial cognition research and pragmatic software product development. He excels at translating human-centered spatial insights into scalable analytics and infrastructure, ensuring systems serve both users and institutions. Based in Portugal, João combines teaching and research pedigree with hands-on leadership in cloud, DevOps, and data engineering. An understated strength is his ability to bridge architectural theory and production systems, turning behavioral insights into auditable, operational data products.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Art and Design, Art and Design at ES António ArroioUniversity College LondonArquitectura do Planeamento Urbano e Territorial, Architecture / Planning, Arquitectura do Planeamento Urbano e Territorial, Architecture / Planning at University of LisbonMSc, Built Environment Evaluation for Sustainability, MSc, Built Environment Evaluation for Sustainability at The University of SalfordOficinas de S. José - Salesianos de Lisboa
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (31)
r-package9
observation9
earth-observation9
data-repository9
zarr9
earth9
julia8
dataframes7
knitr7
rmarkdown6
csv6
calculated-columns6
ggplot6
truncated6
mvc6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AIRCentre/JuliaEO
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Repository (data, code, etc.) for the workshop: JuliaEO - Earth Observation with Julia
Contributions:27 reviews, 217 commits, 36 PRs in 3 months
dataframesdata-repositoryobservationdataminingworkshop
jpinelo/OptiQuantR
Aug 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 5 years 4 months
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