Val Kovalsky
Co-Founder & CEO at Stray Blocks
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVal Kovalsky is a geospatial scientist-turned-founder with 11+ years building production-scale remote sensing and water sustainability products. With a PhD in Geospatial Sciences, he modernized NASA’s WELD archive before leading image-based irrigation and nitrogen recommendation efforts at The Climate Corporation, running global field trials and product launches. He now co-leads startups (Nave Analytics and Stray Blocks) delivering data-assimilation pipelines and privacy-preserving geospatial data exchange for irrigation management and policy KPIs. Val combines deep domain science, hands-on engineering of ARD-to-model pipelines, and business-facing skills in product strategy and proposals—an unusual mix that moves satellite data from research into operational decision-making. Based in Missouri, he repeatedly bridges academic collaborations, supercomputing production, and commercial deployments to scale climate-smart water tools.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Environmental Science, MS, Environmental Science at Ohio UniversityPhD, GISc and Engineering, PhD, GISc and Engineering at South Dakota State University
Ukrainian, Russian, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (26)
git10
github10
patch9
subversion8
aws8
audit7
developer-tools7
auditing6
performance-analysis6
monitoring6
lighthouse5
scaffold5
git-addons4
console4
code-generation4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vanessakovalsky/kubernetes-training
Jun 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 3 PRs, 87 pushes in 4 years 4 months
vanessakovalsky/ansible-training
May 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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