Summary
Michael Jendryke is an AI data engineer, co-founder and CTO with 11 years of experience translating academic geospatial research into production-ready GeoAI and DGGS platforms. He led a €1.4M university-to-spin-off project, co-authored the OGC API DGGS standard, and is senior author on a Scientific Data (Nature Portfolio) paper—work that underpins a Rust-based spatial tokenization stack he architected at GeoInsight. His portfolio spans European institutions and industry partners (ESA, Airbus, European Commission), delivering high-performance databases, scalable GeoAI pipelines and AI-ready Earth observation products. Notable but less obvious: he combines deep domain expertise in discrete global grids with hands-on systems engineering, from core libraries and APIs to securing multi-source public funding and operationalizing DGGS at scale.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Engineering Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Doctor of Engineering Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University
MSc Geography/Geomatics, MSc Geography/Geomatics at Ruhr University Bochum
Doctor of Engineering (discontinued) Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Doctor of Engineering (discontinued) Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at Technical University of Munich
German, English, Latin, Chinese