About Me
About Me
About Alper Dincer
I’m Alper Dincer — a climate-tech entrepreneur, geospatial innovator, and product builder based in the United Kingdom. I create digital platforms that turn complex climate, drought, and environmental data into practical tools for decision-making.
My work is focused on building ventures and products at the intersection of climate risk, geospatial technology, and data infrastructure. Rather than treating geospatial systems as specialist tools for a narrow audience, I am interested in creating accessible platforms that help governments, organisations, businesses, and the public better understand environmental risk and act earlier.
Founder & Venture Builder
I am the creator of Global Drought Map, an open, browser-based platform designed to make global drought conditions easier to explore and understand through modern geospatial infrastructure and interactive visualisation.
I am also building Drought.UK, a UK-focused drought monitoring and early warning platform that brings together rainfall monitoring, SPI, anomalies, local summaries, and seasonal outlooks to support more practical, localised drought intelligence.
Alongside these initiatives, I am CTO and Co-Founder of Climingo, a climate-tech venture developed through the Cambridge-based Carbon13 venture builder. Climingo focuses on helping organisations compare, benchmark, and choose weather and climate data providers more effectively, with the aim of making climate-data procurement more transparent, evidence-based, and decision-ready.
Together, these ventures reflect the direction of my work: building products that combine climate science, geospatial engineering, and decision-support design in ways that are practical, scalable, and commercially relevant.
Why I Build These Platforms
My entrepreneurial focus comes from a simple observation: climate and drought data are often technically rich but operationally hard to use. Many platforms are built for specialists, fragmented across institutions, or too difficult to interpret in real decision-making contexts.
I build products to close that gap — tools that not only process environmental data well, but present it in a way that helps people make better decisions around resilience, agriculture, water, planning, and climate adaptation.
Experience Behind the Ventures
Before building my current ventures, I worked on major drought and geospatial systems across multiple countries. These experiences helped shape the products I am building today.
- UNDP Madagascar: Developed a drought early warning dashboard to support early action and humanitarian decision-making.
- UNICEF Somalia: Designed geospatial dashboards and data integration pipelines combining climate monitoring, vulnerability information, and forecast products.
- Turkey’s National Drought Monitoring and Early Warning System (KTEUS): Contributed to a national-scale drought platform bringing together meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological indicators for planning and water management.
These projects gave me direct experience in how drought intelligence is used in practice — and where the current gaps remain. They also shaped my shift from project delivery into venture creation.
Mekansal and Product R&D
I was also the founder of Mekansal Yazılım, a geospatial and climate-tech company established in Turkey. Through Mekansal, I have explored product-oriented R&D in spatial decision support, climate analytics, low-code GIS, and H3-based environmental data models.
This work has included prototypes and applied research around:
- Excel-based spatial tools that convert tabular records into visual geographic outputs with less dependency on specialist GIS workflows
- H3-based climate indexing for drought indicators such as SPI, SPEI, NDVI, FAPAR, and soil moisture anomaly
- Spatial decision-support systems for environmental planning, energy site selection, and risk analysis
Technology as an Enabler, Not the Identity
I work with technologies such as DuckDB, H3, PostGIS, Python, NodeJS, Parquet, Cloudflare R2, MapLibre, and browser-based geospatial architectures. These are important parts of my work, but for me the real goal is not the stack itself — it is what the stack enables.
I use modern geospatial and data-engineering tools to build products that are lighter, faster, more accessible, and more scalable than many traditional environmental data systems.
Climate-Tech Ecosystem and Recognition
I am active in the UK geospatial and climate-tech ecosystem through venture building, product development, and public-facing communication around drought, climate risk, and spatial technology.
- CTO & Co-Founder of Climingo, developed through Carbon13 Cohort 9
- Selected to the UK Geo100 list
- Public-facing work around Global Drought Map and Drought.UK
Vision
My long-term goal is to build and support a new generation of climate-tech products that are globally relevant, technically modern, and genuinely useful in the real world.
I believe the future of environmental intelligence lies not only in better data, but in better products: platforms that make drought, climate, and spatial risk information easier to access, understand, and act on.
This website is where I share that journey — from venture ideas and product thinking to technical experiments, climate-tech reflections, and lessons from building in this space.