Sam Franklin
Geospatial Developer
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSam Franklin is a geospatial developer and Earth scientist with over a decade of experience building cloud-native Earth Observation and geospatial solutions for the water, energy, maritime and environmental sectors. He combines hands-on Python engineering (GDAL, xarray, geopandas), cloud infrastructure and server-side geospatial tooling with product development and team leadership, having led GIS teams and product efforts at Lloyd’s Register and commercialised services through his own DeepSky Consulting. A 2017 International Space University SSP scholar, he has blended space-sector insights with practical EO product work at startups and research institutes, and now focuses on scalable EO processing at CGI/SCISYS. Sam is an active communicator in the geospatial and open-source communities, a frequent conference speaker, and brings an uncommon mix of numerical modelling, marine science and software craftsmanship to complex environmental problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Space Studies Program, Space, Space Studies Program, Space at International Space UniversityBSc Oceanography/Geology, Earth Science, BSc Oceanography/Geology, Earth Science at University of SouthamptonMSc, Environmental Engineering, MSc, Environmental Engineering at University of Surrey
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Github Skills (43)
osgeo8
earth-observation7
insar7
docker-build7
earth7
risk-assessment6
sentinel6
sar6
landsat6
observation6
data-service6
smithy5
google-earth-engine5
python5
singularity4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samfranklin/foss4guk19-jupyter
Sep 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
samfranklin/misc
May 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:81 pushes in 3 years
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