Loïc Houpert

I’m a cloud engineer at Development Seed. I work on the step between satellite data providers and the people who use their data: pipelines that turn Sentinel and Meteosat products into analysis-ready Zarr datacubes catalogued in STAC, and the checks that keep them correct once they run in production. I have been working for ESA (EOPF Sentinel Zarr Explorer) and EUMETSAT (Destination Earth Data Lake), with Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Python and a lot of Zarr.

Before that I spent about ten years (2010–2021) as a physical oceanographer, working with gliders and moorings in the subpolar North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Some of the processing code I wrote or maintained, and the open datasets I published, are still in use today. In between, I learnt the software side at OSE Engineering and at the UK Department for Work and Pensions, where I co-architected a secure container platform for data scientists and analysts.