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Gabriel Roldan

Software Developer

Gabriel has worked on geospatial software since 1997, working on route finding, vehicle tracking, web mapping with ESRI and Open Source software, desktop editing with uDig, implementation of OGC CS-W 2.0 Catalog server and more. He started his own company to do consulting and development on GeoTools, GeoServer and uDig. Later, he joined OpenGeo in 2007 to have more time to focus on core software development.

Gabriel lead the first migration from ESRI web mapping software to GeoServer, by building the ArcSDE datastore and WMS for GeoServer, and adding SVG output. When he joined the GeoTools community in 2003, he contributed the first ArcSDE data reader, which stll maintains. He recently rearchitected it raster support to match ArcSDE's capabilities.

Education

  • Architecture, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, 1995-1996
  • Minor in Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina, 1997

Professional Specialities

  • ESRI Integration: Has written and maintains modules that support interoperability between open source solutions and ESRI products.
  • GML3 and complex features: Has lead several successful prototypes.

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Open Source Projects

  • GeoServer: Active committer and founding Project Steering Committee member
  • GeoTools: Maintains ArcSDE module, committer

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