Jona Raphael
Machine Learning Lead at SkyTruth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJona Raphael is a Machine Learning Lead with 14 years of multidisciplinary engineering experience, currently based in Cambridge, MA, and leading global satellite-based ocean pollution detection at SkyTruth. He combines mechanical and electrical design expertise with production-scale ML pipelines that process weekly global imagery to identify oil spills, bringing hardware-first pragmatism to applied AI. As founder of Repr Engineering he consults on startup hardware and ML projects focused on social and environmental good, and previously scaled manufacturing from hundreds to tens of thousands of units at Flare. Comfortable from PCB redesign and FCC recertification to server-side analytics, he excels at closing the loop between field deployment and algorithmic insight. Trained in cognitive science and mechanical engineering (Olin, Brown, Boston University), he blends human-centered systems thinking with hands-on prototyping and international product rollout experience.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science at Brown UniversityBSME, Mechanical Engineering, BSME, Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringMSc, Mechanical Engineering, MSc, Mechanical Engineering at Boston University
English, Spanish, Italian, French
Github Skills (53)
postgresql-database9
administration9
map-tiles8
pgadmin8
database8
rasterio8
stac8
cloud-services8
aws-cdk8
gdal7
tile-service7
geometric7
management7
html6
mlmodel6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SkyTruth/cerulean-cloud
Dec 2023 - May 2026
All cloud services including inference and database structure
Contributions:47 reviews, 101 PRs, 832 pushes in 2 years 5 months
cloud-servicesdatabaseinference
jonaraphael/csv
Dec 2024 - Mar 2026
Seamlessly Display and Edit CSVs in Visual Studio Code
Contributions:26 PRs, 84 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 3 months
visual-studio-code
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