About ActiveSense
Specialist Geospatial
Data Architecture
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
Soheil is a PMP certified geospatial data architect with 12+ years of personal professional experience — spanning roles at KW Subsea (2012–2017), Samsung Research, and Parkopedia, before founding ActiveSense in 2017. He leads every engagement personally, from architecture design through to delivery. His most recent work includes the Defra GeoEP national land data platform (300–500M features, 6 Arm's Length Bodies) and the Acorn CCS North Sea GIS Platform — the UK's first IOGP SSDM v2 compliant CCS delivery.
Shadi Fekri Yazdi
Senior GIS Specialist
Shadi is a Senior GIS Specialist with hands-on expertise in geospatial data processing, quality control, and standards-compliant GIS delivery. She supports data integration workflows, QC procedures, and ArcGIS platform configuration across ActiveSense's government and energy engagements — bringing structured rigour to the data processing stages that determine whether a platform holds up under operational load.
Salar Sotoodeh
Technical Specialist
Salar is a Technical Specialist providing engineering workflow support, data processing, and technical development across ActiveSense engagements. His work spans GIS data processing pipelines, format conversion, and the hands-on technical stages that translate data architecture designs into working deliverables — including support on the Acorn CCS and Defra GeoEP programmes.
Matthew Guilliatt
GIS Specialist
Specialist GIS delivery across offshore infrastructure, marine survey, and energy sector programmes. Brings deep technical expertise in survey data processing and standards-compliant GIS outputs.
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.
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