Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus
Jorge S. Mendes de Jesus is an Agronomist and geoinformatics specialist with a PhD in Geography and Sustainable Development from Ben-Gurion University. He has extensive experience in spatial data infrastructures, having worked at the Joint Research Center (ISPRA) as an OGC web service developer, Plymouth Marine Laboratory on remote sensing applications, and ISRIC on major projects including SoilGrids and WOCAT. Jorge currently runs TerraOps - Innovations (https://terraops.org), providing Geo-as-a-Service solutions and REST API development for geospatial data using the OSGeo stack. His expertise spans Python programming, Kubernetes deployment, and spatial data analysis for agricultural and environmental applications.
Sessions
Walk through of Helm charts and horizontal scaling approaches for GeoNetwork in Kubernetes, covering volume pitfalls like wro4j cache configurations, plus Locust benchmark techniques for user access testing
Workflow demonstration converting 20GB+ raster datasets like GEDTM30 global DEM to H3 hexagonal grids at resolution 12. Complete pipeline uses GDAL, DuckDB, and GeoParquet for QGIS visualization. Benefits include eliminated projection boundaries, consistent global coverage, and scalable OGC REST API with O(1) retrieval performance for modern cloud-native workflows
Most OGC services are deployed with only functional testing, leading to failures under real user loads. Our open-source Locust framework generates realistic geospatial requests with random bounding boxes and dynamic coordinates for proper load testing