Who we are

Faunalia is an Italian company working on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) since 2000, based exclusively on free and open source software. Our main customers are public administrations, private companies, associations. Faunalia has its main branch in Italy, and operates worldwide.

Have a look at our Curriculum Vitae to get a list of all of our completed projects.

Team

The activities of Faunalia are based on an international network of high profile collaborators, coordinated by Paolo Cavallini. Among our recent collaborators:

• Alex Bruy
• Radim Blazek
• Nyall Dawson / North Road
• René-Luc D'Hont / 3Liz
• Michael Douchin / 3Liz
• Jürgen E. Fischer/Norbit / norBIT
• Even Rouault / Spatialys
• Sandro Santilli

Paolo Cavallini

• Founder of Faunalia
• Chair of the international association QGIS.org from 2018 to 2020 and member of QGIS Project Steering Commitee
• Co-founder and past president of GFOSS.it - Italian Geographic Free and Open-Source Software Association
• Charter member of OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation
• Co-founder of ITPUG - ITalian PostgreSQL User Group
• Member of IUCN - The World Conservation Union - Species Survival Commission, past President of IUCN Small Carnivore Specialist Group, and member of IUCN - European Sustainable Use Specialist Group
• Over 20 years of experience on free and open source GIS
• PhD
• Curriculum Vitae (html)
• Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)
• Citations of scientific papers
• Some of my talks
• Recent contribution to free software Github

Matteo Ghetta

• Environmental scientist with specialization in geographical data
• Co-Founder of QGIS Italia
• He has worked as researcher at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in the H2020 Freewat project as co-author of the plugin
• More than 14 years of experience with free and open source GIS
• Collaborates actively with the QGIS developers community, writing code
• He is one the most active member of the QGIS Documentation team
• Author of DataPlotly plugin
• He has won some QGIS Grant Proposal (QGIS Processing documentation and updating of the Training Manual)
• Reviewer of the Italian translation of QGIS
• He improved the QGIS Processing framework by adding several unit tests (thanks to QGIS Italian user Group sponsor)
• Curriculum Vitae (html)
• Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)

Ulisse Cavallini

• Business economist, specializing in strategy, management and control
• Thorough knowledge on operating system administration (Android, Windows, Debian, Arch Linux)
• Thorough knowledge on Android, MicroG
• Thorough knowledge on containerization using Docker
• Experience in database/geodatabase management
• Experience in webGIS management
• Experience in installation and administration of web servers, databases, mail servers
• Curriculum Vitae (html)
• Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)

Riccardo Beltrami

• Mechanical engineer
• Environmental scientist with specialization environmental monitoring
• Full stack developer
• More than 12 years of experience in web development, including:
  • Javascript
  • php
  • nodejs
• Extremely good knowledge in QGIS
• Extremely good knowledge in webGIS, especially LizMap
• Contributes to the LizMap core repository
• Curriculum Vitae (html)
• Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)