Alessandro serves as CTO and head of software engineering at B-Open Solutions (Rome, Italy), a software consulting company he co-founded in 2004, that develops geospatial solutions with Open Source Software.
Prior to joining B-Open Alessandro was a remote sensing and GIS specialist in the Earth Observation R&D team at Telespazio SpA, a Finmeccanica company. In his free time he participated to a number of Open Source Software projects as a volunteer developer with commit access to GDAL and RivaTV source code.