Biography
Salvatore Fiandaca is a GIS developer and open-source geospatial advocate. He works at Planetek Italia in the Exploitation Tools team, within the Government & Security business unit, where he focuses on the rapid development of geospatial analysis and visualization tools. He is interested in all aspects of GIS: desktop, web, geodata and automation.
His daily toolbox is built on open-source technologies: QGIS and PyQGIS, GeoServer and GDAL. He has been deeply involved in the IRIDE and PCP WISE programmes, working on large-scale raster processing, Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF workflows and climate data services. He develops QGIS plugins and shares his knowledge through pigrecoinfinito.com, his blog of QGIS and GIS tutorials in Italian.
He has been an active member of the Italian QGIS community since 2015 and moderates the qgis-it-users mailing list. He is certified under the QGIS.org Certification Programme and advocates for open geodata. He is also active in the wider Italian open-source geospatial community, GFOSS.it.
He is currently exploring the integration of AI and GIS through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), connecting language models with QGIS Desktop and geospatial workflows. He is based in Sicily, Italy.
