Laurens Geffert
Head Of Science at Ocean OS
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLaurens Geffert is a geospatially-focused data science leader and Head of Science with a decade of experience turning large, messy ecological and commercial datasets into production-grade data products. He bridges academic rigour (PhD in Geography from Cambridge, modelling thousands of marine species on supercomputers) with industry impact—leading geospatial data quality efforts at Google Maps and building programmatic advertising and identity systems at Nielsen that earned patents and measurable business uplift. Comfortable across the full stack, he has shipped scalable ML pipelines, spatial experiments, and automation that cut manual processes from minutes to seconds. Based in London and shaped by roles in Germany, the UK and the US, he uniquely blends macroecology and GIS expertise with product-minded engineering to make the biosphere increasingly machine-readable.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geography at University of CambridgeDiplom Biology, Diplom Biology at The University of Bonn
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (91)
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biodiversity10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JanLauGe/janlauge.github.io
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 118 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 9 months
JanLauGe/BioGeoBias
Sep 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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