--- title: 'Our team' url: 'https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro' markdown: 'https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro.md' lang: en date: '2019-03-03' description: 'Faunalia vision, services, and team' taxonomy: archives_month: - mar_2019 archives_year: - '2019' --- # Our team Faunalia is a company with over 20 years of experience in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) using free and open-source software. Our clients include public administrations, private companies, and non-profit organizations. Headquartered in Italy, Faunalia operates worldwide. Read our [Company CV](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/files/cv_en.pdf) for a complete list of all projects completed. ## Team ### Ulisse Cavallini ![Ulisse Cavallini](https://www.faunalia.eu/images/c/0/a/5/6/c0a56325e442734ca50277e2ac2270cec2ff0d0f-uc.jpg) - Business economist, specializing in strategy, management and control - Thorough knowledge on operating system administration (Android, Windows, Debian, Arch Linux) - Thorough knowledge on containerization using Docker - Thorough knowledge in database/geodatabase, webGIS, webservers, and mail servers management - Thorough knowledge on Android, MicroG - [Curriculum Vitae (html)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_uc) - [Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/files/UCavallini_CV_eu_en.pdf) ### Riccardo Beltrami ![Riccardo Beltrami](https://www.faunalia.eu/images/b/e/0/b/5/be0b5463e114a119c5ab829506276bd5bb6f49aa-rb.jpg) - 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](https://github.com/3liz/lizmap-web-client/commits/master/?author=mind84) - [Curriculum Vitae (html)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_rb) - [Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/files/Beltrami_CV_eu_en.pdf) ### Matteo Ghetta ![Matteo Ghetta](https://www.faunalia.eu/user/pages/06.intro/mg.png) - Environmental scientist with specialization in geographical data - Co-Founder of QGIS Italia - He has worked as researcher at the [Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna](http://www.santannapisa.it/it), Pisa, Italy, in the [H2020 Freewat](http://www.freewat.eu/) 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](https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/commits?author=ghtmtt) - He is one the most active member of the [QGIS Documentation team](https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/commits?author=ghtmtt) - Author of [DataPlotly](https://github.com/ghtmtt/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)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_mg) - [Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/files/Ghetta_CV_eu_en.pdf) ### Paolo Cavallini ![Paolo Cavallini](https://www.faunalia.eu/user/pages/06.intro/pc.jpg) - 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](http://www.gfoss.it/) - *Charter member* of [OSGeo - Open Source Geospatial Foundation](http://www.osgeo.org/) - Co-founder of [ITPUG - ITalian PostgreSQL User Group](http://www.itpug.org) - Member of [IUCN - The World Conservation Union - Species Survival Commission](https://www.iucn.org/), 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)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_pc) - [Curriculum Vitae Europass (pdf)](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/files/Cavallini_CV_eu_en.pdf) - [Citations of scientific papers](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=n8KJd94AAAAJ) - [Some of my talks](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgfHOBPf0zh_FiQ-AC4ktZQ/) - Recent contribution to free software [Github](https://github.com/pcav) Faunalia has an established international network of distinguished partners. Among our recent collaborators: - [Nyall Dawson](https://github.com/nyalldawson) / [North Road](https://north-road.com) - [Jürgen E. Fischer/Norbit](https://github.com/jef-n) / [norBIT](http://norbit.de) - [Even Rouault](https://github.com/rouault) / [Spatialys](http://www.spatialys.com) - [Alex Bruy](https://github.com/alexbruy) - [Radim Blazek](https://github.com/blazek) - [René-Luc D'Hont](https://github.com/rldhont) / [3Liz](https://www.3liz.com) - [Michael Douchin](https://github.com/mdouchin) / [3Liz](https://www.3liz.com) - [Sandro Santilli](http://strk.kbt.io/) --- ## Navigation - Previous: [Training](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/training.md) - Next: [Projects](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/jobs.md) - Children: - [Curriculum Vitae of Matteo Ghetta](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_mg.md) - [Curriculum Vitae of Paolo Cavallini](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_pc.md) - [Curriculum Vitae of Riccardo Beltrami](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_rb.md) - [Curriculum Vitae of Ulisse Cavallini](https://www.faunalia.eu/en/intro/cv_uc.md)