Niklas Jordan
Earth Observation Engineer & Team Lead (via Innoflair)
Gråsten, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolNiklas Jordan is an Earth Observation Engineer and team lead with a decade of experience turning satellite data into actionable insights for climate risk and disaster response. Based in Denmark, he balances hands-on operations and leadership—building high-performing support teams, defining quality workflows, and running incident-ready service operations for EUMETSAT via Innoflair. A trained geologist, he blends domain science with practical engineering: authoring Jupyter-based tutorials, running workshops, and creating tools that simplify access to ESA imagery. He founded OpenSpaceData.org to make satellite data truly accessible and leads DisasterTech, a 200+ person community developing crisis technologies. Niklas is equally comfortable presenting to technical audiences and translating remote sensing into usable products for journalists, NGOs, and policymakers. His background in UX and product roles gives him an uncommon focus on usability in Earth observation services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Geology, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Geology at The Open University
German, English, Danish
Github Skills (31)
javascript9
ruby9
rails9
conda9
collaboration9
satellite8
weather8
earth-observation7
conda-forge7
gis7
roamresearch7
frontend6
jupyter-notebook6
jekyll6
geospatial6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NiklasJordan/niklasjordan.github.io
Oct 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 5 years 8 months
OpenSpaceData/api.openspacedata.org-OLD
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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