Gerardo Ezequiel Martín Carreño
Technology direction from product question to architecture, evidence controls and delivery plan.
Ventures and platform builds
2026, ended October
CommunityAI
Fractional Chief Technology Officer
Technical direction for an early-stage community-intelligence proof of concept, within a collaborative founding team.
Professional experience
2026–Oct 2026
Fractional Chief Technology Officer
CommunityAI, London
Started with a technical audit and implementation roadmap, then led solution architecture, data engineering, bespoke spatial modelling and software delivery for an early-stage community-intelligence proof of concept. Set technical strategy and introduced provenance, licence governance, spatial validation and reproducible release controls for location-intelligence and media-optimisation questions.
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. Automated site-selection, catchment and cannibalisation analysis that had required weeks of manual work.
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; managed two analysts.
Jan 2020–Feb 2023
Freelance Spatial Data Analyst
Ecotopia Urbana · Canary Islands and Catalonia
Delivered freelance urban-sustainability consulting and spatial evidence for the Urban Agenda for the Canary Islands.
Technology leadership and delivery
Product and solution architecture
System architecture, APIs and agent tools, technical decision records and prototype-to-product planning.
Data and ML platforms
Cloud-native geospatial, GCP, BigQuery, Earth Engine, PostGIS, DuckDB, GeoParquet and data-quality gates.
Delivery and governance
Roadmaps, architecture decisions, data licences, model validation, privacy boundaries and reproducible release gates.
Commercial and strategic direction
Product positioning, build-versus-buy analysis, open-core boundaries and board-ready technical communication.
Education and training
Oct 2026–present
PhD researcher
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), The Bartlett, UCL
Researching how reliable spatial evidence must be for decisions about urban heat and buildings.
2022–2024 · part-time
MSc Urban Spatial Science
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, The Bartlett, UCL · Distinction
Spatial Analytics pathway: 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.
Selected talks and conversations
Mar 2026
Adapting Cities with AI (opens in a new tab)
Academy alumni panellist · Urban AI Conversation #49
Presented the urban-heat capstone developed through the URBAN AI Academy.
May 2025
From location analysis to full-stack spatial data science (opens in a new tab)
Speaker · Spatial Data Science Conference, Royal Geographical Society
Presented a cloud-native geospatial journey bridging site selection and customer insights.
Project case studies and their supporting documents are available in the work index.