Vincent Sarago
Earth Observation Specialist Geospatial Developer
Plœmeur, Brittany, France
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Top SchoolVincent Sarago is an Earth Observation specialist and geospatial developer with 11 years of experience building tools and services that make satellite imagery more accessible and useful. He founded RemotePixel.ca to showcase elegant, user-friendly access to imagery and currently drives imagery processing and tooling at Development Seed. His background spans planetary science to industry roles at Mapbox and Effigis, giving him deep expertise in SAR, InSAR, multispectral processing and scalable cloud workflows. A practical polyglot, he ships production-grade Python and Node backends and contributes to notable open-source projects such as rasterio and titiler, improving raster metadata handling and dynamic tile services. He blends research-grade remote sensing skills with pragmatic engineering—optimizing GDAL builds, test coverage, and API behavior—to help teams process imagery efficiently. Based in Brittany, France, he pairs formal geoscience training with a knack for product-minded interfaces that broaden satellite data adoption.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Master of Science (MSc), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Université de NantesMaitrise, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Maitrise, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II) - Clermont-FerrandDeug 1, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Deug 1, Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Université d'AngersBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at University of Leeds
English
Github Skills (19)
fastapi10
controller10
python10
raster10
gdal10
geojson10
asyncio10
api10
rasterio10
asgi10
cython10
litestar10
testing9
pytest9
pydantic9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
developmentseed/titiler
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Build your own Raster dynamic map tile services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 334 reviews, 399 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vincent's contributions centered on implementing and improving features for a dynamic tile server. They added functionality for rendering tiles and processing requests, including features such as a GeoJSON feature crop endpoint and capabilities related to handling JPEG/JPG file formats. The user also focused on refactoring dependencies, improving code readability, and updating API details to be more complete.
servicenowcograsteraws-lambdah3
rasterio/rasterio
May 2017 - Apr 2022
Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:174 reviews, 41 commits, 38 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily contributed to the `rasterio/rasterio` project by implementing and refining core functionalities related to geospatial raster data processing. Their work includes adding a `get_metadata_item` method and later renaming it to `get_tag_item` to retrieve metadata values. Additionally, the user added unit tests and fixed existing ones to improve code quality and reliability, demonstrating an understanding of software testing practices. Furthermore, the user made changes to the build process, specifically related to the handling of GDAL libraries, and also removed deprecated features and made changes to the CRS handling.
rasteriopythongeospatialmapbox-satellite-ossraster
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