Alessandro Pasotti
Owner at ItOpen
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Alessandro Pasotti is an experienced open-source software engineer and founder with 15+ years building Web GIS, backend services, and geospatial tooling from Turin, Italy. As owner of ItOpen and a former QGIS developer at Boundless Spatial, he blends Python/Django development, C++ backend work, and DBA skills to deliver robust geospatial applications and map services. He has a track record of contributing to flagship projects like QGIS and GDAL—improving documentation, server-side processing, and core drivers—while also driving CI/QA and production-ready fixes. Comfortable managing projects end-to-end, he favors open source stacks and pragmatic architecture, often tackling subtle data-integrity and SQL edge cases that reveal deep domain expertise.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Milan
Github Skills (27)
content-management-system10
cms10
c-language10
restructuredtext10
python10
qgis10
gdal10
rs10
geospatial10
joomla10
spatial-data10
wms10
geo10
php10
sql10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
qgis/QGIS
Jan 2014 - Jan 2023
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1133 reviews, 5156 commits, 2764 PRs in 9 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro primarily focused on the QGIS project's backend, contributing to various services including WMS and OAPIF, with a focus on processing and serving geospatial data. The user worked on features such as adding temporal filters, supporting multi-part feature geometries, and fixing issues related to database-backed layers, demonstrating strong skills in geospatial data management and server-side development. The contributions included fixing bugs and adding support for handling database-related issues in different areas of the project, and refactoring code for robustness and efficiency.
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qgis/QGIS-Documentation
Apr 2013 - Sep 2022
QGIS Documentation
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:34 reviews, 219 commits, 109 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alessandro's commits primarily focused on enhancing and updating the QGIS documentation, specifically the PyQGIS Developer Cookbook. They added, modified, and removed content within the documentation to improve clarity, accuracy, and completeness. Their contributions included adding examples, correcting typos, updating URLs, and reorganizing existing documentation.
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