Jorge De Jesus
Chief Executive Officer at TerraOps GeoDevOps-as-a-Service
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJorge De Jesus is a GeoIT leader and CEO with 13 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native Spatial Data Infrastructures, blending a PhD-level grounding in geography and environmental sciences with hands-on DevOps. He has led Kubernetes-based deployments and Docker workflows for FOSS4G stacks (MapServer, GeoNetwork, GeoServer) and built RESTful and OGC services for soil and environmental data at ISRIC and beyond. A pragmatic Python developer and systems engineer, Jorge has contributed to the prominent open-source pygeoapi project—shaping core API behavior, providers, and testing—to help organizations expose geospatial data via OGC APIs. Comfortable across Linux, microservices, and Agile delivery, he pairs technical depth with client-focused problem solving and a track record of translating scientific datasets into scalable, production-grade services.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Geography and sustainable development, Ph.D, Geography and sustainable development at Ben-Gurion University of the NegevLicentiate degree, Agricultural Engineering, 16.4 (80%), Licentiate degree, Agricultural Engineering, 16.4 (80%) at Universidade do Algarve
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Dutch
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Github Skills (23)
postgresql10
ogc10
python10
apidoc10
data-set10
geospatial10
data-model10
api10
user-data10
geojson9
sqlite9
sql9
pytest8
testing8
dockers7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
geopython/pygeoapi
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
pygeoapi is a Python server implementation of the OGC API suite of standards. The project emerged as part of the next generation OGC API efforts in 2018 and provides the capability for organizations to deploy a RESTful OGC API endpoint using OpenAPI, GeoJSON, and HTML. pygeoapi is open source and released under an MIT license.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 36 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily contributed to the pygeoapi project, a Python-based OGC API server implementation. Their work involved modifying core files, including those related to the API's flask and starlette applications, templates, and provider logic (PostgreSQL, SQLite). These changes included implementing search paths and user-defined geometry features, refining API endpoints, and updating documentation and testing processes.
geojsonopenapipython-serverrestrestful
GeoCat/pygeoapi
Mar 2018 - May 2019
pygeoapi provides an API to geospatial data
Contributions:141 pushes, 24 branches in 1 year 2 months
geospatial
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