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Juraj Zvolenský

EO platform & infrastructure engineer

📧 [email protected] 🔗 GitHub 🔗 LinkedIn 🔗 ORCID 🌐 Bolzano, Italy

professional summary

My background is in geography and remote sensing, but my work has shifted firmly toward the infrastructure, platforms, and workflows that make Earth Observation science possible. Rather than doing the data processing myself, I focus on building and operating the cloud-based systems and workflow tooling that let EO scientists run their analyses reliably and at scale. Through European initiatives like openEO and EOEPCA+, and work with the European Space Agency, I help translate complex EO requirements into scalable, FAIR, and interoperable platforms. I'm happiest at the intersection of Earth Observation, cloud infrastructure, and developer tooling.

experience

Junior Researcher

Eurac Research

Feb 2024 — Present

Contribute to projects from the provincial level to Horizon Europe initiatives.
Support European initiatives (openEO, EOEPCA+) enabling FAIR, cloud-based EO data processing.
Coordinate EOEPCA+ tasks and track progress across the internal development team.
Develop new processes and features for satellite data processing in openEO.
Create Zarr data sample use cases for the ESA EOPF Sample Service project.
Contributed to InterTwin digital twin for drought forecasting, integrating openEO with HPC processing.

Intern EO Data Scientist

European Space Agency

May 2023 — Oct 2023

AI-based vessel detection in European ports, published on the ESA RACE dashboard.
Introduction and contributions to the Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture (EOEPCA).
Contributed to the OGC Application Package standard for Earth Observation applications.

education

MS, Geographical Information Management and Application

Utrecht University

2021 — 2023

BA, Geography

King's College London

2018 — 2021

skills

Programming

Python
Rust
CWL

Data & Cloud

Docker
Kubernetes
Object stores
Argo CD
Helm
Git / CI-CD
GitOps
Proxmox

GIS & Remote Sensing

GDAL, Rasterio
QGIS, ArcGIS
Sentinel Hub, openEO
FAIR principles
Workflow Orchestration

Personal interests

Programming
Espresso making
Travelling
Formula 1
Golf

projects, publications & certificates

Projects

openEO Platform — an API that lets users connect to Earth observation cloud back-ends in a simple, unified way.
Cubes and Clouds Course at EO College — open-source online course on datacubes and cloud-based EO data processing.
Earth Observation Exploitation Platform Common Architecture (EOEPCA) — blueprint architecture for interoperable EO platforms based on open standards.
EOPF Zarr — a cloud-optimized data format for large-scale scientific data used in ESA Sentinel missions.

Publications

Daily Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) time-series for the Venosta Valley at 50 m spatial resolution, 2017–2022 (Open Earth Monitor Project, available on Zenodo).

Certificates

Introduction to the Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities — United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, 2024.
Euraxess Horizon Europe Proposal Writing for Early-Career Researchers, 2025.
EO College Cubes and Clouds, 2024.