Summary
Maarten De Jong is a data engineer with nine years of experience specializing in large-scale geospatial processing, satellite imagery, and building footprint vectorization for global coverage. He has applied Python and cloud-native architectures across AWS and Azure to productionize geospatial pipelines at blackshark.ai and VIDA, and now brings that expertise to The Ocean Cleanup. Trained as an MSc in Geomatics with a BSc in Architecture from TU Delft, he blends spatial analysis, visualization and urban thinking to solve environmental and disaster-response problems. Comfortable across cloud, IoT and full-stack tooling since his Deloitte and earlier mobile-app work, he thrives on turning complex geodata into actionable products. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, scalable solutions that bridge research-grade methods and operational delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Geomatics, Master of Science - MSc Geomatics at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch, French, German