I am an independent GIS consultant and the founder of Geomermaids, with over 20 years of geospatial experience spanning national and regional spatial data infrastructure projects in France and consulting work now based near Boston. I am a long-time open source advocate, focused on cloud-native and the emerging geospatial stacks. My current work centers on building lean, automatable spatial data pipelines and helping teams move heavy geospatial workloads onto modern, open formats.