Samapriya Roy
Chief Executive Officer at NEON Program
Peoria, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSamapriya Roy is a geospatial technology leader and CEO with nine years of experience turning satellite and Earth-observation data into operational tools and products for industry, research, and conservation. With a PhD in Geography and roles spanning Planet and Maxar, he blends product strategy, developer relations, and systems architecture to enable petabyte-scale workflows and realtime imagery integrations across agriculture, disaster response, and environmental monitoring. He founded and maintains the Awesome GEE Community Catalog—the largest community-run Google Earth Engine dataset registry—demonstrating a rare mix of open-source stewardship and practical engineering. As a Google Developer Expert and NEON advisor, he shapes platform capabilities and national-scale ecological data priorities while mentoring the next generation of spatial thinkers. Based in Peoria, IL, he often bridges academic and industry worlds as affiliate faculty and consultant, making complex spatial science accessible and actionable.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Holy Cross School, tadongMaster of Science - MS, Applied Earth Sciences (Hydrology), Master of Science - MS, Applied Earth Sciences (Hydrology) at Indiana University IndianapolisDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Geography at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelors of Technology, Civil Engineering, Bachelors of Technology, Civil Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
English, Bengali, Hindi, Nepali
Github Skills (82)
scientific-publications10
api-client10
command-line-interface10
forge10
geodata10
data-management10
datasets10
stac10
python-client10
catalog10
api10
planet10
cli10
open-datasets10
earth-engine10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
samapriya/education-research
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
samapriya/Planet-GEE-Pipeline-CLI
May 2017 - Apr 2021
Planet and Google Earth Engine Pipeline Command Line Interface Tool
Contributions:15 releases, 119 commits, 1 PR in 4 years
pythonplanetpipelinecommand-line-interfacegoogle-earth-engine
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