Loïc is a Cloud Engineer who designs and runs the pipelines that turn satellite archives into analysis-ready, cloud-native datasets. At Development Seed he has built pipelines that convert Sentinel and Meteosat data into Zarr datacubes catalogued in STAC for European agencies including ESA and EUMETSAT, from architecture decision records and MVP plans to running them in production on Kubernetes and Argo Workflows.

Before moving into software, he spent about ten years as a physical oceanographer, working with gliders, moorings, research ships and satellites in the Mediterranean and the subpolar North Atlantic. His research focused on deep convection, water mass formation and the North Atlantic Current. As part of the international OSNAP program, he turned raw observations into open datasets and processing tools, including a mooring toolbox the Scottish Association for Marine Science still uses. He then worked at the UK's Department for Work and Pensions, where he co-architected a secure container platform for data scientists and analysts and mentored junior engineers.

Loïc holds a PhD in Physical Oceanography, has authored or co-authored 30+ peer-reviewed papers and spent about 200 days at sea. He contributes upstream to open-source geospatial tools and enjoys sharing what he learns at conferences and workshops. Outside work, he experiments with self-hosted services in a home lab and explores the UK and Europe with his family in their camper van 🚐.