Vivien Deparday
Senior Urban Development Specialist at The World Bank
Abidjan, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Summary
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Top SchoolVivien Deparday is a Senior Urban Development Specialist with 15 years of international experience applying geospatial science to disaster risk management and urban resilience at the World Bank. He blends technical GIS and backend development skills—demonstrated by contributions to the popular open-source GeoNode platform—with policy-facing project leadership scaling open data for resilience. His career spans hands-on GIS project management, academic research at the University of Waterloo, and multi-year program work deploying open-data initiatives across fragile and urban contexts. Based in Abidjan, he brings a pragmatic mix of technical implementation and strategic program design, often translating complex spatial datasets into actionable investment and risk-reduction decisions. Notably, his code-level improvements to GeoNode reflect a rare practitioner-developer perspective that helps bridge the gap between data platforms and operational disaster risk work.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Ecole centrale de LilleClasse préparatoire, Classe préparatoire at Lycée Pierre De FermatMSc, MSc at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
api10
apidoc10
python10
django10
postgresql9
gis9
git6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GeoNode/geonode
Aug 2013 - Feb 2015
GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 push, 23 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Vivien primarily focused on backend development, specifically within the GeoNode platform. Their contributions include implementing a new `/updatelayers` endpoint, modifying the existing `gs_slurp` function to improve output formatting and reduce code duplication. They also made modifications to the Django models, and views. Additionally, they added superuser permission requirements for certain actions, and fixed type issues in `post_save` functions.
pythondjangosharingfacilitatesgis
vdeparday/geonode
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
pythongeospatialgeonodesharinggeospatial-data
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