John Truckenbrodt
Geospatial Data Architect
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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Top SchoolJohn Truckenbrodt is a Geospatial Data Architect with a decade of experience building scalable satellite data processing and analysis-ready data solutions, currently shaping DLR's HPDA terrabyte platform. He combines deep expertise in SAR time-series analysis, data cube technology and reproducible research from roles at DLR and Friedrich Schiller University Jena with hands-on software engineering reflected in his pyrosar contributions for large-scale SAR processing. His work spans applied research (soil moisture, wetlands, land classification) and operationalization, including a past international project developing a forest inventory system for the Philippines. Based in Jena, he blends academic rigor with production-grade tooling, favoring test-backed improvements and clearer documentation to make complex EO workflows reproducible and maintainable.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Geoinformatics, Master’s Degree, Geoinformatics at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
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Github Skills (10)
regular-expression10
python10
documentation9
testing8
framework-design7
python-sphinx6
scipy6
numpy6
r6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
johntruckenbrodt/pyroSAR
Apr 2016 - Dec 2022
framework for large-scale SAR satellite data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 17 reviews, 2117 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:John's commits primarily focus on improving the functionality of the `pyrosar` framework. They addressed deprecated regular expression escape sequences, removed tests for functionality moved to `spatialist`, and improved the documentation of the `ancillary.parse_datasetname` function. They also added tests for the `parse_datasetname` and `find_datasets` functions and made several improvements to internal code structure.
pythonsarradarinsardata-processing
SAR-ARD/s1ard
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Sentinel-1 ARD Prototype Processor
Contributions:15 releases, 36 reviews, 266 commits in 11 months
sentinel-1radarprototypesentinelbackscatter
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