Marc Farra
Software Engineer at Development Seed
Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Farra is a software engineer based in Beirut with 12 years of experience building data-driven systems that span computer vision, real-time web, interactive visualization, and satellite imagery pipelines. At Development Seed he combines full-stack engineering with data tooling—contributing to notable open-source projects like a Landsat 8 processing utility—and builds interfaces and feedback loops to improve OpenStreetMap and humanitarian mapping workflows. He also drives civic tech in Lebanon as a founder of the region’s early hackerspace and through open-data election and social-monitoring projects that surface underrepresented public datasets. Comfortable across embedded devices and language-design curiosities, he brings a research-minded approach from prior computer-vision work to pragmatic production systems and community-focused initiatives. Fluent in English, Arabic, and French, he often bridges technical, civic, and multilingual contexts to deliver practical, trustworthy data products.
13 years of coding experience
French Baccalaureate, Physics-Chemistry, French Baccalaureate, Physics-Chemistry at College Notre Dame de JamhourBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at American University of Beirut
English, French, Arabic
Github Skills (9)
spatial10
geo10
rasterio10
geospatial10
python10
image-processing10
spatial-data10
numpy10
sens9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
developmentseed/landsat-util
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
A utility to search, download and process Landsat 8 satellite imagery
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily contributed to the image processing pipeline for Landsat 8 satellite imagery. Their work involved implementing a new image processing pipeline using the `rasterio` library. They refactored and enhanced existing image processing functionalities, adding features like NDVI calculation and color correction, and improved efficiency by moving the warp function.
landsat
map-egypt/api
Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:22 PRs, 18 pushes, 20 branches in 9 months
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