Vincent Picavet
President at Oslandia
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Picavet is a seasoned GIS and open-source software leader with 14+ years of experience founding and running Oslandia, a 100% remote company that designs industry-grade spatial databases and GIS architectures. He blends hands-on engineering (PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS, Python) with product and team leadership, driving agile, transparent management practices like wages transparency and collective decision-making. A co-creator and principal maintainer in the QGIS ecosystem, he advises on inner-source and organizational change while teaching open-source webmapping at the university level. Vincent also invests time in mission-driven ventures such as Time for the Planet and runs Apeiron, signaling a commitment to technically ambitious projects with social or environmental impact. Skilled in presales, training, and complex algorithmic GIS challenges, he is known for translating research-grade techniques into robust, production-ready open solutions.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Applied mathematics, Computer science, Applied mathematics, Computer science at Institut national des Sciences appliquées de Rouen
English, Spanish, German, French, quechua
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
web-application10
gdal10
svg10
3d10
gltf10
spreadsheet10
distribute10
medium10
tax10
visualization10
agenda10
invoice10
php10
python10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
vpicavet/docker-pggis
May 2014 - Aug 2019
Docker image for GIS-enabled PostgreSQL
Contributions:70 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 5 years 3 months
postgresqldocker-imagedockergis
Oslandia/postgis-workshop
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:33 commits, 1 comment in 2 days
python2-xworkshoppostgispostgresql
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