Mauricio Gastaldi is a seasoned senior software engineer and former CTO with 15 years of professional experience, currently shaping e-commerce solutions at Schwarz Digits from Spain. He combines deep architectural judgment with hands-on backend development, particularly in geospatial systems—evidenced by substantive contributions to flagship open-source projects GeoServer and GeoTools where he fixed scale denominator computations, spatial predicate logic, and time-zone-aware temporal predicates. Mauricio has led engineering teams and projects across startups and enterprises, from co-founding CTO roles to technical management in voting and GIS domains, bringing strong project leadership and SDI expertise. Comfortable moving between code and strategy, he excels at turning complex spatial and integration requirements into robust, spec-compliant implementations.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciado Ingeniero en Informática (Computer Science - Software Engineer ), Licenciado Ingeniero en Informática (Computer Science - Software Engineer ) at España - Ministerio de Educación
Bachiller Humanista, Bachiller Humanista at Colegio Nacional Nuestra Señora de Monserrat
Licenciado Ingeniero de Sistemas - Ciencias de la Computación ( Computer Science - Software Engineer )), Licenciado Ingeniero de Sistemas - Ciencias de la Computación ( Computer Science - Software Engineer )) at Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Contributions summary:Mauricio primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the GeoTools library, focusing on the cql and ecql modules. Their work involved addressing issues related to spatial operations (INTERSECTS, OVERLAPS, TOUCHES) and temporal predicates, including time zone handling. The user also made enhancements to the CQL parser and date handling functionality. Furthermore, they updated the relate operation code and corrected the intersection matrix logic.
Contributions summary:Mauricio contributed to the GeoServer project by implementing and refining the ScaleHint functionality within the WMS capabilities. They fixed test cases related to scale hint calculations and addressed discrepancies in the computed values. Furthermore, the user updated the code to align with the WMS 1.1.1 and 1.3.0 specifications by implementing the proper scale denominator computations.
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Mauricio Gastaldi - Senior Software Engineer at Schwarz Digits