Antonio Leblanc CTO · 1.5°C EN/PT

Rio de Janeiro · Climate & public technology

Intern to CTO in ten months. Today I lead the AI platform protecting 40 million hectares against wildfires.

Policy, community engagement, and ethics matter just as much as the model — that's where I want to keep spending my energy.

Antonio Leblanc
190
Cameras · 150 HaaS + 40 SaaS
40M+
Hectares under watch
95%
Detection accuracy
01
Pantera
As co-founder and CTO of 1.5°C, I lead the computer vision, satellite imagery, and fire-risk models — with the engineering, ML, and environmental science team that builds them with me.
02
Agents
Eight AI agents run sales, support, and marketing on Hermes, open-source, on our own servers.
03
ForeFire
Contributor since 2022 to CNRS's open-source wildfire simulator, maintainer since 2025, and co-author on its JOSS paper — reviewing and merging PRs, cutting releases, Dockerization, CI/CD, documentation.
04
Now
Open to CTO or senior technical leadership roles — in climate, govtech, or agentic systems, where the hard part isn't the model but putting it inside an operation where being wrong is expensive.
Build

What I build

01
Pantera — smoke detection Actual system output
Wildfire smoke rising over farmland, detected and boxed by the Pantera camera network.
Smoke 97.2%
One of 190 cameras 40M+ hectares under watch

Pantera

The wildfire AI platform I lead end to end at 1.5°C — detection, risk, response, impact.

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02
ForeFire — fire spread simulation Simulator output
ForeFire fire-spread simulation output over terrain.
Open-source, CNRS Contributor since 2022

ForeFire

The open-source fire-spread simulator I maintain outside the day job, built by CNRS.

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Contact

Get in touch

Antonio Leblanc
Rio de Janeiro — marathon runner, percussion in a Carnaval bloco

If you're building something in either direction, or if you lead an early-stage climate team and want a technical second opinion, write to me — I'd like to hear about it.