Loïc is a Cloud Engineer with a blend of scientific data expertise and cloud infrastructure experience. Before moving into software engineering, he spent over a decade as a physical oceanographer, building data-processing systems for large geospatial datasets from ocean robots, research vessels, buoys, and satellites. His research focused on climate-relevant ocean processes, including water mass formation, deep convection, and heat transport by major currents like the North Atlantic Current—giving him firsthand insight into the challenges of working with Earth observation data.

At Development Seed, Loïc designs and builds scalable cloud platforms that help organizations process and access Earth observation datasets. His work spans Python development, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and CI/CD automation. Previously, at the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions, he co-led the development of a data analysis platform, improving security, accelerating deployment cycles, and mentoring junior engineers.

Loïc holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography and has authored or co-authored 30+ peer-reviewed papers, spending more than 200 days at sea conducting research. He is passionate about open source and believes that expanding access to Earth observation data is key to addressing environmental challenges. Outside work, he experiments with self-hosted services in a home lab and enjoys exploring the UK and Europe with his family in their camper van 🚐.