Rodrigo is a software engineer at Development Seed. He works on open source code and infrastructure to access and process geospatial data. Rodrigo is passionate about the intersection between remote sensing and software engineering, and desiring to make satellite imagery more accessible to the global community.

Prior to joining Development Seed, Rodrigo worked at UP42, a geospatial marketplace for data and processing. With a team, he built containerized data acquisition and processing blocks, including a deep learning based Land Cover Segmentation algorithm for sub saharan Africa, and a utilities package to enable partners to build blocks better and faster. Previously, Rodrigo worked at Planet where as a sales engineer, he advised customers on how to build solutions on top of satellite imagery, including mangrove management tools and power line right-of-way monitoring systems.

He has a bachelor of science in Agriculture Engineering and a master of science in Geoinformation Science from Wageningen University. For his master thesis he investigated, and published on how to infer the ripeness of apples in an orchard using gas sensors mounted on UAVs.

When he’s not tinkering with code or satellite images, Rodrigo enjoys traveling and cooking with his boyfriend, hosting big dinner parties, going to the theatre and museums, and fighting the patriarchy.