Sandro Santilli
Tech Manager at Rift Valley Water Technology PLC.
Ethiopia
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Top SchoolSandro Santilli is a seasoned tech manager and hands-on backend developer with 22 years of experience blending IT, technical support, and engineering leadership in Ethiopia. He runs Rift Valley Water Technology PLC, applying engineering discipline to practical water and sanitation solutions while maintaining a deep technical practice in open-source software. An active GitHub contributor, he has improved authentication, avatar federation, and email systems in well-known self-hosted projects like Friendica, Gogs/Gitea, and contributed GIS-focused backend and database enhancements to QGIS. His background in construction engineering informs a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to solving real-world infrastructure problems. Comfortable moving between code, databases, and field deployments, he brings rare cross-domain experience connecting community-driven software with essential public services.
22 years of coding experience
Diploma, Construction Engineering, Diploma, Construction Engineering at Istituto Italiano Galileo Galilei
English, english amaric italian and a bit of oromifa
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Github Skills (44)
git10
develop10
postgresql10
gogs10
mysql10
databases10
authentication10
user-authentication10
automatic-updates10
spatial-data10
php10
autoupdate10
go10
gis10
database-design10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
go-gitea/gitea
Sep 2016 - Jun 2022
Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 114 commits, 136 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sandro primarily contributed to the backend of the Gitea project by addressing various issues related to mail sending, avatar handling, and general code improvements. Their commits focused on fixing bugs, improving functionality, and enhancing user experience. They refactored parts of the codebase by modifying email templates, including the correct URL for the avatar, and adding support for features like federated avatars and OpenID.
golangdevopsgiteahostedcup
qgis/QGIS
May 2011 - Jan 2023
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:163 reviews, 607 commits, 421 PRs in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sandro contributed to the QGIS project by restoring and enhancing the TopoViewer functionality, a plugin for managing and visualizing topological data. They made changes to the database manager plugin by adding support for a "bbox" URI parameter in the PostgreSQL provider, which was then used within the TopoViewer plugin. The user further refined the TopoViewer by implementing custom layer ordering and addressing issues related to handling raster and pointcloud layers, and added a new test related to the PostgreSQL provider.
spatiallinwmsgeotoolsgis
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