About

I build the maps autonomous vehicles drive on — and everything upstream of them. Since July 2025 I produce lane-level Lanelet HD maps for autonomous trucking corridors in some states of USA: extracting lane markings, curbstones, road edges, stop lines, signs and traffic lights from mobile-mapping LiDAR point clouds, then assembling the connected lane network — boundaries, virtual and turning lines, cut lines at every intersection, slicing at condition changes, and the regulatory associations that bind lanes to signals and signage.

Behind that sits a decade in the part of the chain where centimeter accuracy is actually decided. I flew as the Leica ALS70-HP / ALS80-HP sensor operator on eighteen airborne campaigns, managed the processing of 385 km² of ALS LiDAR and 1,096 km² of stereo-satellite DEM and orthoimagery, and controlled geodetic networks, datums and projections closely enough to publish Bolivia’s LTM-PTL standardized local projection proposal. Photogrammetry lecturer since 2016, founder of Astro Geomática, and an independent researcher by habit.

Education¶

Original titles (Spanish). Degrees, institutions and thesis titles are translated from the official Spanish records; proper names are kept in Spanish. M.Sc. thesis: “Estrategia didáctica basada en el Software como Servicio para el fortalecimiento del Proceso de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje en la Carrera de Ingeniería Geográfica – Escuela Militar de Ingeniería”. B.Sc. thesis: “Propuesta para la implementación de la proyección LTM-PTL con parámetros normalizados para Bolivia”.

Appointments¶

Experience in Detail¶

GIS Specialist — HD Mapping for Autonomous Vehicles¶

U.S. based company · remote · USA · Jul 2025 – present

• Produce lane-level HD maps in Lanelet2 / OSM format for public-road autonomous trucking corridors, working in JOSM and in the client’s web platform.

• Delivered 320 km of 3D HD cartography along autonomous trucking corridors.

• Extract road features from mobile-mapping LiDAR point clouds and co-registered imagery: lane markings, curbstones, road edges, stop lines, traffic signs and traffic lights.

• Assemble complete lane networks — boundaries, virtual and turning lines, cut lines at every intersection, slicing at condition changes — and build regulatory associations linking lanes to signals, stop lines and signage.

• Built a QGIS 4 plugin (Python / PyQGIS) with 50+ tools that automates the HD-mapping workflow: lanelet centerline and turn-path generation, regulatory association tools, 2D-to-3D draping over the DTM, ID management, route-stationing tiling and a pre-delivery validator that checks every layer against the client’s specification. Rolled out to the digitizing team through GitHub, with a public edition.

• Built an AI-based detection pipeline for vertical signage that combines mobile-mapping imagery and LiDAR to locate stop and speed-limit signs (MUTCD R1-1, R2-1) and traffic-light heads, and extract each sign face as a 3D polygon tagged with its MUTCD code, using sign inventories from previous projects as training data.

• Authored a route-stationing tile-naming specification for MMS point clouds — mile-based chainage along the route centerline and LiDAR trajectory, 2 GB per-tile ceiling — replacing square UTM-grid naming so tiling follows acquisition and route planning.

• Coordinate and quality-check an in-house digitizing team; deliver signed technical documentation and coordinate daily with the client in English.

Founder and Principal Geospatial Engineer¶

Astro Geomática · La Paz, Bolivia · production, training and applied research · Nov 2021 – present

• 385 km² of ALS LiDAR and photogrammetric processing as project manager: LAS block creation, trajectory management, TerraMatch strip adjustment, DTM from classified point cloud, orthophoto mosaic and CAD thematic cartography.

• 1,096 km² of stereo-satellite DEM and orthomosaics as project manager: nine AOIs over Bolivia’s main airports, block adjustment with GCPs and check points, breaklines, edited DEM, 1 m contours and 50 cm orthoimagery.

• 4,413 ha of airborne LiDAR over Columbus, Ohio (USA): 85 % of the point cloud classified automatically, combining classification and segmentation methods with deep learning.

• LiDAR classification and segmentation outsourcing for engineering clients in Peru, including electrical transmission-corridor inspection datasets.

• 3D geospatial modeling: 2D CAD planimetry extruded to 3D city models in ESRI CityEngine and BlenderGIS with rendered animations, and printable 3D models derived from imagery, LiDAR, DTM and DSM.

• AWS EC2 GPU virtual workstations for processing peaks; Python automation across ArcGIS, QGIS and photogrammetric packages.

Specialist Consultant — LiDAR and Photogrammetry¶

Servicio Nacional de Aerofotogrametría · Bolivia’s national aerial survey agency · 2022 – 2024

• Supervised LiDAR pre-processing and full processing for the agency’s 2024 airborne remote-sensing program; classified point clouds, a 200 m-wide linear-corridor orthomosaic and cartography.

• Processing, classification, editing, filtering and altimetric control of LiDAR for the 230 kV Mizque–Sucre transmission-line survey, plus RCD30 (80 MP) photogrammetric mosaicking on the same corridor.

• LiDAR post-processing and RCD30 imagery for the Chaco–Amazonía forest-biomass program; QC of the local geoid model for the Ivirizu hydroelectric survey; point cloud and cartography for the Santa Rosa – Juntas Corani hydroelectric study.

Spatial Information Lead / Cartography Lead¶

Wildlife Conservation Society Bolivia · 2019 – 2021

• Spatial information lead for the national project on estimating fire risk and monitoring and verifying fire occurrence on Bolivia’s agricultural frontier (2020–2021).

• Designed and implemented the geodatabase supporting the Mitigation Hierarchy framework (2019).

Head, Project Evaluation Section¶

Servicio Nacional de Aerofotogrametría · La Paz, Bolivia · Dec 2015 – Dec 2018

• Internal project coordinator for 14 airborne LiDAR, photogrammetric, geodetic and topographic campaigns: the 500 kV Yaguacua and 115 kV Huaji–Caranavi and Tarija–Bermejo transmission-line corridors, Misicuni and El Bala hydroelectric studies, the Salar de Uyuni geodetic network, mining prospection and the urban aerial surveys of Potosí and Viacha.

• Airborne sensor and camera operator on 18 flight campaigns (2016–2017) — Leica ALS70-HP and ALS80-HP with RCD30 metric camera, including the ALS80-HP calibration flight. Leica CloudPro 1.2, IPAS CO+ 2.3, FramePro 2.0, Inertial Explorer 8.7.

• Formal letter of commendation from the agency, December 2016.

GIS and Remote Sensing Consultant¶

FAO · OTCA · Instituto Geográfico Militar · NetDesign-IT · 2014 – 2015

Municipal planimetry production for Cobija (Instituto Geográfico Militar); remote-sensing data cleaning for Bolivia’s 2013 Forest Map (FAO and the General Directorate of Forest Management); Pan-Amazonian deforestation and land-use-change monitoring (OTCA Bolivia Observation Room); technical digitizer for the “Roads and Departmental Highways” working tables, Departmental Government of La Paz.

Selected Professional Training¶

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