Diego Grajales
Research Associate
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDiego Grajales is a research associate and geospatial data scientist with a decade of experience applying participatory analytics and information systems to urban resilience, sustainable transport, and deprivation studies. He combines academic rigor—a PhD in Geoinformatics—with hands-on consultancy for institutions like the World Bank and Colombia’s national planning agency to implement national geospatial frameworks and high-performance geodata workflows. Diego has led interdisciplinary projects that co-produce data with communities to inform flood risk governance and cycling infrastructure, translating complex spatial analyses into actionable policy and local interventions. He has taught courses on big geodata, AI, spatial analysis and spatial databases across Europe and Latin America, bridging research and capacity building. Practically fluent in scalable geospatial tech (including GPGPU/Hadoop approaches) and spatial database leadership, he excels at making large, messy urban datasets usable for multi-stakeholder decision-making. Based in Glasgow, he brings a rare mix of field-facing participatory methods, public-sector implementation experience, and advanced computational geoinformatics.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D in Geoinformatcis, Geo-Information Sciences, Smart Cities, Ph.D in Geoinformatcis, Geo-Information Sciences, Smart Cities at Universitat Jaume IMaster of Science, Information Sciences and Communications, Master of Science, Information Sciences and Communications at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
English, Catalan, Portuguese
Github Skills (13)
wpd9
del9
robotics8
python7
authenticator6
machine-learning4
big-data4
java4
spark3
artificial-intelligence3
azure-functions3
data-science2
azure2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
urbanbigdatacentre/WPD-Auth
Feb 2022 - Feb 2025
The authenticator for the Waterproofing Data (WPD) Work Packages
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years
authenticatorwpd
diegopajarito/Mag-ike
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:95 commits, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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