Gerardo Ezequiel Martín Carreño
Spatial data science · Solution and data architecture · Urban sustainability · Counter-cartography
Professional experience
2026–present
Chief Technology Officer (Designate)
CommunityAI, London
Set the technology and data direction for an early-stage, privacy-safe community-intelligence proof of concept. Led an open-data rebuild with spatial validation, provenance, licence governance and reproducible release controls.
Sep 2023–May 2026
Full-Stack Spatial Data Scientist
TJX Europe, London
Delivered geospatial analysis for European markets and built cloud-native workflows connecting loyalty, footfall and demographic evidence.
Feb 2022–Feb 2023
Researcher and Spatial Data Analyst
Metabolism of Cities · Horizon 2020 CityLoops, from London
Co-developed and co-authored CityLoops' Urban Circularity Assessment method; built Sankey and CARTO outputs.
Jan 2020–Feb 2023
Freelance Spatial Data Analyst
Ecotopia Urbana · Canary Islands and Catalonia
Delivered freelance urban-sustainability consulting, municipal energy and emissions analysis.
Mar 2021–Feb 2022
Spatial Data Scientist (Intern), then Junior Researcher
Metabolic · Horizon 2020 CENTRINNO, Amsterdam and London
Intern from March to September 2021, then Junior Researcher from October 2021 to February 2022. Co-authored CENTRINNO's Cartography Alpha Version for nine European pilots; modelled EU27 building stocks and flows across 144 typologies for European Commission JRC study JRC130992; and trained a Sentinel-1/LUCAS land-use classifier in Google Earth Engine for an EEA-commissioned project.
Jun 2019–Jan 2020
Spatial Data Analyst (Intern)
BCNecologia, Barcelona's urban ecology agency
Developed a spatial allocation model for Barcelona's home-care service within the Superilles Socials programme, combining service demand, neighbourhood indicators and the superblock grid.
Selected projects
2026–present
CommunityAI
Chief Technology Officer (Designate)
Open-data architecture, spatial validation and governed release controls for area-level evidence.
2026–present
Climate Intelligence
Founder and full-stack developer
Keyless climate-exposure prototype served through an API and read-only agent tools.
2024–present
Shaping Cool Cities
Researcher and developer
Reproducible data-fusion pipeline across six European cities at 30 metre resolution.
Technical and research practice
Data engineering
Python, SQL, dbt, Snowflake, PostGIS, DuckDB, GeoParquet, scheduled orchestration and data-quality gates.
Architecture and delivery
Technology strategy, solution architecture, delivery design and stakeholder translation.
Spatial data science
Python, SQL, PostGIS, GeoAI, spatial statistics, remote sensing, location intelligence and urban modelling.
Product engineering
TypeScript, React, Next.js, MapLibre, deck.gl, APIs and browser-native analytics.
Urban and environmental research
Urban metabolism, circularity, climate adaptation, material flows, housing and public-interest evidence.
Education and training
2022–2024
MSc Urban Spatial Science
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, The Bartlett, UCL · Distinction
Urban spatial analysis, spatial modelling and research methods.
2020
Software Engineering Immersive
General Assembly
480-hour full-stack engineering programme.
2018–2019
MSc Sustainable Intervention in the Built Environment (MISMeC)
Vallès School of Architecture, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Urban and architectural approaches to sustainable transformation, including urban metabolic flows of energy, water and materials.
2017–2019
MSc Sustainability Science and Technology
University Research Institute for Sustainability Science and Technologies, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Interdisciplinary sustainability science and technology; graduated 8.29/10 on the Spanish scale.
2013–2017
BSc Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada
Environmental systems, ecology and urban-planning coursework.
Project case studies and their supporting documents are available in the work index.