Andrea Antonello
Adjunct Professor at ARIES: ARtificial Intelligence for Environment & Sustainability
Bolzano - Bozen, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolAndrea Antonello is an adjunct professor and seasoned geospatial software developer with 21 years of experience bridging environmental engineering and IT through open-source tools and applied research. He holds a PhD in Digital Field Mapping and has led development of GIS modules and environmental models for academia, industry and startups, including founding HydroloGIS and contributing to prominent projects like GeoTools and JGrass. As a long-standing OSGeo member and coordinator of JGrass, he focuses on robust, maintainable Java-based geospatial code—having fixed memory leaks and improved SWT mapping stability in the official GeoTools repo. Andrea combines teaching and consultancy roles across European research centers and companies, applying AI and location-based methods to environmental sustainability challenges. Based in Bolzano, he uniquely blends field-mapping domain expertise with hands-on backend engineering and open-source stewardship.
21 years of coding experience
PhD Digital Field Mapping, PhD Digital Field Mapping at Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo BoEngineering Environmental Engineering, Engineering Environmental Engineering at Università di Trento
Github Skills (5)
javas10
swt10
java10
geospatial9
gis9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
geotools/geotools
Aug 2012 - Jun 2022
Official GeoTools repository
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 30 commits, 10 PRs in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrea contributed to the GeoTools repository by fixing memory leaks, addressing issues related to map position retrieval in SWT (Simple Window Toolkit) events, and upgrading test cases to use AssertJ instead of Fest. They also removed checks of capacity of arraylist. The user's work focused primarily on Java-based code within the SWT module and the core library, indicating a focus on improving the stability and maintainability of the geospatial library.
geotoolsjavageospatialgisshapefile
moovida/dart_jts
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
An effort to port some of the Java Topology Suite to dart
Contributions:100 commits, 9 PRs, 99 pushes in 3 years 2 months
dartjava
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