Matej Batič
EO Research Team Leader at Sinergise
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatej Batič is an EO research team leader and senior software developer with a decade of experience building production-grade Earth observation tooling at Sinergise from Ljubljana. With a PhD in experimental particle physics, he brings a strong research background to applied remote sensing, leading development on prominent open-source projects for Sentinel Hub including custom scripts and the sentinelhub-py Python client. He combines hands-on back-end engineering—API integrations, type-safe Process API work and sample-type support—with domain expertise in cloud detection, burned-area analysis and vegetation indices. Matej’s career bridges academia and industry, having worked on simulations and experimental research before moving into operational EO software. Colleagues rely on him for both technical leadership and deep domain knowledge that turns complex satellite data processing into reliable developer-facing services.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Experimental particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Experimental particle Physics at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
English, Italian
Github Skills (9)
satellite-imagery10
javascript10
api10
sens10
python10
apidoc10
data-analysis10
aws9
algorithms8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sentinel-hub/custom-scripts
Aug 2017 - Feb 2022
A repository of custom scripts to be used with Sentinel Hub
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:114 commits, 4 PRs, 84 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Matej primarily contributed to the development of custom scripts for the Sentinel Hub, focusing on remote sensing data analysis and earth observation. Their work involved creating and modifying JavaScript-based scripts to perform tasks such as cloud detection, burned area analysis, and vegetation index calculations. The user also updated existing scripts related to index database integrations.
custom-scriptssentinel-1sarinsarsatellite
sentinel-hub/sentinelhub-py
Jan 2018 - Apr 2022
Download and process satellite imagery in Python using Sentinel Hub services.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 76 reviews, 48 commits in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Matej contributed significantly to the `sentinelhub-py` repository, a Python library for downloading and processing satellite imagery. Their contributions included implementing new features for the Geopedia API, adding functionality to return sample types for evalscripts, fixing FIS service keys and resolving issues from a pull request. They also added new type for Process API and performed general maintenance of the project.
python-librarysatellite-imageryrasteriopythonsar
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