Andrea Aime

Technical Lead

Andrea is an expert geospatial technologist with specialties in large data systems and spatial data analysis algorithms.

Andrea has ten years of programming experience, focusing on Java but with experience in a number of other languages. He started on Open Source Geospatial development in 2000, contributing to GRASS and becoming an official member of their development team. In 2003 he discovered GeoTools and joined the Java geospatial world.

In GeoTools, Andrea's first contributions were towards performance. His keenness for speed endures to this day. Andea also wrote the GeoServer's renderer, which he actively tunes for higher cartographic output and performance. He leads efforts on feature level versioning of WFS, security, and the new user Interface.

Selected Publications

  • Andrea Aime, Flavio Bonfatti, Paola D. Monari, "Making GIS closer to end users of urban environment data", Proceedings of ACM-GIS 1999
  • Andrea Aime, Silvia Ascari, Flavio Bonfatti, Paola Daniela Monari, "A process modeller for spatial analysis", Proceedings of UDMS 2000
  • Andrea Aime, Silvia Ascari, "Il sistema informativo ambientale del progetto ISOLA", Atti del convegno GRASSDay 2001

Did You Know That Andrea...

  • Speaks fluent Italian, and is located in Italy.
  • Frequently teaches university courses in GIS and Java.
  • Has delivered several presentations, including the FOSSG4 2007 talk, “GeoServer past, present and future”

Open Source Projects

  • GeoServer: Project Steering Committee member, Committer with highest number of commits
  • GeoTools: Project Steering Committee member, Committer, maintains Renderer and versioning modules

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