Marco works since 2004 at Brockmann Consult. He leads the Sentinel-3 Toolbox project development and is main responsible developer for the SNAP core development. SNAP is ESAs open-source platform for the Sentinel Toolboxes. Marco worked on the development of BEAM before, the predecessor of SNAP. He was involved in several projects in the domain of scientific processing like creating Sentinel-2 global composites (S2GM), land classification in the frame of LC-CCI, retrieval of water constituents (C2RCC) and others and has a broad understanding of EO data formats, processing and analysis. The development tools are mainly written in Java and Python.