Summary
Minh Radel is a Director of Software Engineering with a decade of experience building and scaling data pipelines that move petabyte-scale imagery and sensor data across platforms. Currently at Planet, he leads end-to-end pipelines for PlanetScope, SkySat, Pelican and Tanager and owns cross-sensor calibration across radiometry, geometry, and rectification. His background spans machine learning, NLP and data engineering roles at Mapbox, Capital One and Kensho, where he shipped systems for anomaly detection, probabilistic search, and misinformation research. Minh blends hands-on engineering with people leadership—transitioning from individual contributor work in ML and graph knowledge bases to directing multi-sensor data platforms. He holds advanced training in geoinformatics and computer science, which underpins his work at the intersection of remote sensing, ML, and production data infrastructure. Colleagues would note his penchant for pragmatic tooling that makes complex scientific calibration repeatable in production.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's degree Geoinformatics, Master's degree Geoinformatics at George Mason University
B.A. Mathematics, B.A. Mathematics at University of Virginia