Olivier D'hondt
SAR, Earth Observation & Python Freelancer
Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolOlivier D'hondt is a SAR and Earth Observation specialist with over a decade of hands-on experience building Python-based geospatial toolchains and machine learning solutions for satellite data. He holds a PhD in Signal Processing and has driven research-to-production work—from tomographic SAR deep learning at TU Berlin to operational volcano and flood monitoring platforms. As a freelancer he authored EO-Tools and other open-source SAR utilities, led adoption of Apache Airflow for global automation, and routinely combines Dask, GDAL and physics-aware ML to scale processing of Sentinel and DEM products. He uniquely blends deep academic expertise in speckle modeling and tomographic reconstruction with pragmatic engineering for commercial EO applications.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Signal Processing and Communications., Ph.D. Signal Processing and Communications. at Université de Rennes I
French, English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (48)
insar10
satellite-imagery10
conda10
sar10
denoising10
sentinel10
conda-forge9
earth-observation9
geospatial9
cpp8
raster8
python8
gis8
rasterio8
coordinate-systems8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
satim-co/PolSARpro
Mar 2025 - Jun 2026
Re-implementation of selected PolSARpro functions in Python, following the scientific recommendations of PolInSAR 2021 (Work In Progress).
Contributions:2 releases, 4 PRs, 154 pushes in 1 year 3 months
python
odhondt/odhondt-hugo
Dec 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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