Stefano Menegon
Senior Researcher at Università Iuav di Venezia
Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolStefano Menegon is a Senior Researcher and environmental engineer with a Ph.D. in New Technologies for the Environment, combining 13+ years of research and applied GIS development across academia, public research, and a successful FBK spin-off. He designs and implements collaborative geospatial web applications, spatial data infrastructures and OGC-compliant services, and has led GIS development and integration efforts for marine and coastal science. As co-founder of MPA Solutions and a longtime contributor to notable open-source projects like GeoNode, Stefano bridges research and production-grade backend development, addressing interoperability and internationalisation challenges. He champions Open Principles (Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards) to accelerate reproducible environmental innovation and smart community services. Based in Veneto, Italy, he also teaches advanced maritime spatial planning, bringing practical project experience into graduate education.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Environmental and Territory Engineering, Master's degree, Environmental and Territory Engineering at Università di TrentoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), New Technologies for the Environment, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), New Technologies for the Environment at Università Iuav di Venezia
English, Italian
Github Skills (9)
gis10
python10
django10
spatial-data9
geospatial9
web-development9
postgresql8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GeoNode/geonode
Jun 2012 - Oct 2015
GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stefano primarily contributed to the GeoNode project by addressing various backend issues and improving code quality. Their work included fixing variable renames, reflecting changes from the owslib library, enabling proxy connections for HTTPS, and resolving issues with non-ASCII characters. They also made significant changes to the Geonode core functionality.
pythondjangosharingfacilitatesgis
menegon/django-measurements
May 2019 - Aug 2021
Django application for integrating measurements time series
Contributions:91 commits, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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