Robert Guinness is the founder of Pondenome and also serves as the CTO of Teqmine Analytics. He is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, but has called Finland his home for more than eight years. For most of his time in Finland, he has been a researcher at the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute. He has a PhD in computer science from Tampere University of Technology, a master’s degree in space studies from the International Space University, and a bachelor degree in physics from Washington University in St. Louis. Before entering the world of software development, he worked at NASA