Alan
Geirnaert

Founder

Entropy · Anthy-sur-Léman, France

Deep-tech company building autonomy and geospatial software, alongside technical community infrastructure.

• Driving Entropy's core technical direction: autonomous systems and geospatial analysis for environmental monitoring, building on an autonomous drone concept prototyped with a team at NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025 (orbital debris, autonomous satellite servicing)
• Organising EntropyHack Edinburgh (13-14 March 2027): a 48-hour hybrid hackathon, 75 builders on-site plus an open global online track, across three tracks (Security, Impact, Explore)
• Secured Aikido Security and Red Bull as partners, with Aikido Security delivering an on-site workshop for participants
• Built and maintain the full event platform: Next.js, MongoDB, Better Auth, deployed on Vercel

Sole developer for a Swiss environmental non-profit building open geospatial tools.

• Built and maintain Planetary Solutions for Earth, a live Next.js mapping platform serving satellite-derived environmental data for the Philippines
• Implemented custom raster tile serving natively through Next.js API routes, removing the need for external tile infrastructure
• Integrated Sentinel-5P atmospheric data, 10m land cover fragmentation, population density and public transport layers over MapLibre GL
• Currently building an educational platform for earth observation, code and satellite data

Full-Stack Software Developer

App'Ines · Remote, France

Production platform work on a remote, distributed French engineering team.

• Shipped a real-time messaging feature (WebSockets) serving several thousand active users in production
• Built and deployed an internal dashboard with Angular + Ionic (Capacitor): JWT auth, role-based guards, secure token refresh, and protected routing
• Designed REST APIs in Node.js/Express/MongoDB with typed DTOs, request validation, and shared contracts, significantly reducing runtime errors
• Refactored the frontend into reusable accessible components with route-level code splitting, improving load performance and maintainability

Head of Technical Program Management

SSIP · Hybrid, Lucerne, Switzerland

Technical and program leadership across the European space innovation ecosystem.

• Led development of the official SSIP web platform (public pages, internal coordination tools for events and analytics)
• Key contributor to ActInSpace Switzerland 2026 (Lucerne), a CNES and ESA-backed hackathon, across technology, operations and program delivery
• Translated executive strategy into operational programs, platform roadmaps, and team workflows

Software Engineer

Headstarter AI · Remote, USA

AI feature work in a fast-paced US remote engineering environment.

• Built AI features using RAG and embeddings for knowledge-aware responses
• Developed data pipelines and evaluation scripts; profiled latency and improved prompt consistency across environments