Raphaël Roy-Jauvin
Harbour view through a glass facade

45.50° N, 73.57° W · Montréal, QC

Raphaël Roy-Jauvin

Environmental and Urban Planning · Geospatial Expertise

Welcome! I'm a trilingual (English, French, German) Geospatial professional currently working with NOAH Intelligence, a climate-tech startup where I turn raw municipal data into the pipelines behind property-level flood risk models. I am also working through McGill's Master of Urban Planning, to point my technical expertise at broader planning problems. Get in touch if you're interested in working with me!

QGIS · ArcGIS Pro · Python (PyQGIS, ArcPy) · PostGIS · FME · ArcGIS Online

Recent Work

A selection of my recent GIS work and projects.

Geospatial data engine diagram

Municipal Data Engine for Flood Risk Modeling

The automated engine that prepares a municipality's spatial data for flood risk modeling. One run ingests six raw open datasets and carries them through eight stages, from standardization and network splitting to service lateral generation, producing verified, simulation-ready products for four downstream consumers: hydraulic modeling, risk analytics, backend services, and web delivery. Built in PyQGIS with cache-aware selective rebuilds, fail-fast guards, independent auditing, and monitors that watch for silent changes in upstream data.

Ottawa-Montreal rail corridor analysis map

Ottawa-Montreal ALTO High-Speed Rail Corridor Analysis

A spatial analysis of Canada's first announced high-speed rail segment. Evaluated population catchment areas, land use composition, and station accessibility across the 200km Ottawa-Montreal corridor using Census data, AAFC land cover, and OpenStreetMap sources.

Greater Vancouver ambulance response network analysis map

Greater Vancouver Ambulance Response Times: A Network Analysis

A network-based analysis evaluating ambulance response times and population exposure relative to provincial emergency response benchmarks under different traffic scenarios. By combining a GIS network analysis with my emergency services domain knowledge, I modeled EMS coverage across Metro Vancouver, quantifying how many residents fall within (and beyond) critical response time thresholds.

Victoria light rail suitability analysis map

Victoria LRT Feasibility Analysis

An exploration of potential light rail routes for the Capital Regional District. Used weighted overlay analysis combining population density, transit stop density, proximity to the E&N rail corridor, and distance from activity centres to identify high-need areas and propose two route options.

Rail network map of Germany

Rail Connectivity in Germany

Built a high-resolution map of Germany's rail network by extracting OpenStreetMap data with Python and rendering it in Matplotlib, then exported the cleaned layers to a GeoPackage for easy use in ArcGIS Pro.

My Story

On a city street in New York

Originally from Quebec, my family moved to Whitehorse, Yukon when I was eight. Growing up in the North gave me an early appreciation for the outdoors and environmental issues, eventually leading me to a BSc in Natural Resources Conservation at UBC. It was there that I discovered GIS, a field that immediately resonated with my love of technical problem-solving and big-picture thinking. I was fortunate to gain hands-on experience at UBC's Integrated Remote Sensing Studio, supporting graduate research with remote sensing and GIS analysis.

After graduation, I worked for the Yukon Government as a GIS technician on the Ecological Landscape Classification program, combining summer fieldwork with ecological map production.

Wanting to experience life abroad, I then moved to Munich, Germany, where I worked as a GIS planner for MRK Media AG, supporting the rollout of fiber-optic infrastructure across southern Germany.

Back in Canada, and wanting a change of pace, I spent some time in emergency services with BC Emergency Health Services, where I saw firsthand how infrastructure and environmental risk shape people's lives. When it was time to return to geospatial work full-time, I sharpened my skills through BCIT's advanced certificate in GIS and joined NOAH Intelligence, where I build the geospatial data pipelines behind property-level flood risk models. Today I am based out of Montréal, where I'm completing McGill's Master of Urban Planning, pointing that technical foundation at broader questions of how cities grow and move. I couldn't be more excited about what's ahead.

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Education

Master of Urban Planning

Advanced Certificate in Geographic Information Systems

Bachelor of Science — Natural Resources Conservation

Dean's Honour Roll

Relevant Work Experience

Senior GIS Technician | NOAH Intelligence Inc. | February 2026 – Present

Sole GIS specialist at a climate-tech startup, owning the municipal spatial data layer behind property-level flood risk models, from raw city open data through automated pipelines to hydraulic-model-ready and web-portal products. Designed and built automated PyQGIS batch pipelines that convert citywide infrastructure data into standardized, automatically audited products, along with data-currency monitoring. Built a reusable QGIS Processing toolbox that encodes the team's hydraulic engineering rules, from service lateral generation to a gap-filling tool that resolved 98%+ of missing attribute values across municipal infrastructure networks. Established the company's spatial data standards, with CRS conventions and QA rules now followed across the team. Designed the flood-map symbology and a cartographic generalization workflow that reduces multi-million-vertex flood layers to web-deliverable sizes.

Telecommunications GIS Planner | MRK Media AG | Munich, Germany | 2016–2017

Designed fiber optic infrastructure plans using GIS-based tools. Created cartographic products and technical documentation for engineering teams and planning approvals.

Landscape Classification GIS Specialist | Yukon Government | 2012–2013

Maintained geodatabases and created thematic ecological maps. Conducted spatial analysis for landscape classification. Participated in ecological fieldwork and data collection.

Remote Sensing and GIS Assistant | University of British Columbia | 2008–2012

Supported graduate research in remote sensing. Co-authored peer-reviewed study on climate-induced tree species range shifts. Produced habitat extent maps under multiple climate scenarios.

Other Work Experience

BC Emergency Health Services | Victoria, BC | 2017–2026

Operational leadership for 12-person dispatch team. Coordinated multi-agency responses across Vancouver Island using GIS-enabled dispatch software and real-time situational analysis. As a paramedic, responded to medical emergencies and provided patient assessment, treatment, and transport.

Additional Achievements

C1 German Language Certification

Primary Care Paramedic Certification

Yukon Commissioner's Award for Bravery

Recognized for providing aid during a remote helicopter incident while significantly injured.

Get In Touch

Interested in working together or have a question? Feel free to reach out.