Supporting environmental projects with data analysis, software development, and automation.
My name is Bálint Pataki, the owner of Digital Castanea. You can find more details about my professional background here:
LinkedInDigital Castanea was born from two parallel lives — one spent in forests, one in data engineering.
I'm a qualified forest engineer with over five years of hands-on fieldwork across European research and monitoring programmes, including participation in structured forest inventory projects, ecosystem surveys, and environmental monitoring initiatives.
Alongside that, I've built eight years of experience as a data engineer — designing data pipelines, spatial databases, and interactive visualisation systems.
I understand both the complexity of a forest ecosystem, its economical side and the architecture needed to represent it digitally. Thus, Digital Castanea offers unique services with this broad expeerience and therefore can implement IT-projects where an environmental background is required.
I can support your project not just with programming, data engineering, but based on my experience at industry-leading multinational companies I can offer process development and system implementation projects in order to reach higher efficiency within the company.
Field-to-screen solutions for private landowners, forest managers, and environmental stakeholders.
Raw data in itself is not necessarily useful. I can help you by creating order here and improve the overview with dashboards and reports - with automated data pipelines if needed.
Data Analysis & AutomationI visit your land and conduct a thorough GPS survey — recording boundaries, key features, vegetation, water sources, and points of interest with photo documentation. The result is a fully interactive digital map: zoom in, click on spots, see photos, read field notes.
Field Survey & Interactive MappingAvailable as a part-time or project-based specialist for forestry research, environmental surveys, and forest inventory programmes — contributing both as a field technician and as a data engineer. If your team needs someone who can work the terrain and process the data, I'm available to join on your terms.
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