About ActiveSense
About ActiveSense
A lean specialist practice designing the geospatial data infrastructure that governments and energy operators depend on.
The Team
People & Leadership
Soheil Sotoodeh
Founder & Principal Consultant
PMP certified geospatial data architect with 12+ years delivering spatial data infrastructure for UK government and global energy clients. Soheil leads every engagement personally — from architecture design through to delivery. His work spans the Defra GeoEP platform (300M+ features), Acorn CCS North Sea GIS, and pipeline QC in Kazakhstan. ESRI Advanced certified.
Shadi Fekri
Senior GIS Specialist
Senior GIS Specialist with deep expertise in geospatial data processing and project delivery. Shadi brings rigorous attention to data quality and GIS workflows, ensuring every engagement meets the highest standards of accuracy and compliance.
Salar Sotoodeh
Technical Specialist
Technical Specialist supporting geospatial project delivery through technical development, data processing, and engineering workflow support. Salar provides hands-on technical capability across the full project lifecycle.
Our Philosophy
Our Approach
“We design the data model before we touch a tool.”
Most GIS projects fail at the architecture stage — tools are chosen before the data model is defined, standards are bolted on at the end, and the result is a platform that works for the demo but breaks under real load. We reverse this. Every engagement starts with data: what it means, how it relates, what standards it must conform to, and how it will be discovered and maintained for years to come.
Credentials