Jona Raphael
Machine Learning Lead at Repr Engineering
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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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.
13 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 (80)
postgresql-database9
map-tiles8
xyz8
geometric8
aws-cdk8
abaqus7
stac7
database7
management7
chrome7
administration7
cesiumjs6
h36
plotly6
wfs6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SkyTruth/cerulean-cloud
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
All cloud services including inference and database structure
Contributions:36 reviews, 54 PRs, 588 pushes in 1 year 3 months
SkyTruth/ceruleanserver
Mar 2020 - Aug 2022
ML model server for oil-slick detections
Contributions:15 commits, 18 pushes in 2 years 5 months
machine-learningdetectionsoilmodel-serverslick
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