Sergio Ramírez is a Senior Sales Engineer for LATAM at Planet with nine years of experience blending deep geomatics/GIS expertise and customer-facing technical leadership. He began as a hands-on GIS developer and geodesy process supervisor, building QGIS plugins, spatial databases and IDE/GeoServer stacks, and later moved into strategic sales engineering where he crafts solution architectures and leads technical engagements across Latin America. His academic background—advanced studies in geomatics and project management—underpins work on national land administration models (LADM-COL) and advising Colombian government agencies on INTERLIS and ISO-19152 implementations. An active contributor to the flagship QGIS project, he has improved plugin installation UX and relation-dialog validation, showing he still codes to improve user workflows. Colocated in Bogotá, he combines field-tested surveying and LiDAR processing experience with the ability to translate complex spatial systems into business value for public and private stakeholders.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Especialización Gerencia de Proyectos, Especialización Gerencia de Proyectos at Universidad Piloto de Colombia
Maestría en Ciencias de la información y las comunicaciones - énfasis en geomática Geomática, Maestría en Ciencias de la información y las comunicaciones - énfasis en geomática Geomática at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system (GIS)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Sergio primarily focused on improving the QGIS application by addressing bug fixes and enhancing user interface elements. They improved validation within the relation dialog and addressed an issue concerning the installation of ZIP plugins. Further, the user merged with the master branch to integrate updates and resolve conflicts within the codebase. A noticeable contribution involved modifying the plugin installer to guide users with better error messages, specifically when installing plugins from ZIP files.
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Contributions:10 PRs, 28 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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Sergio Ramírez - Senior Sales Engineer, LATAM at Planet