Andrea Gavana
Master Development Planning Architect at TotalEnergies
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrea Gavana is a Master Development Planning Architect with 18 years of reservoir engineering and production experience, currently shaping development planning at TotalEnergies from Copenhagen. He combines deep reservoir simulation expertise (ECLIPSE family, Petrel) and Petroleum Experts workflows with hands-on field production engineering, delivering integrated asset models, probabilistic forecasts and history matching solutions. A pragmatic coder and tool-builder, he has developed Python interfaces and in-house forecasting tools to overcome commercial limits and accelerate decision-making. His open-source contributions to wxPython documentation and widget enhancements show a quieter but impactful streak in developer tooling and usability. Collected across Qatar, Kazakhstan and global projects, his work blends technical rigor with cross-discipline integration to turn complex reservoir data into actionable field plans.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Chemical Engineering, MSc, Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di MilanoMSc, Chemical Engineering, MSc, Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal
Italian, English, French, Serbian, Greek
Github Skills (11)
web-widgets10
front-end-development10
rest10
widgets10
python10
wxpython10
documentation10
platform-independent9
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
compiler8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
wxWidgets/Phoenix
Dec 2011 - Nov 2017
wxPython's Project Phoenix. A new implementation of wxPython, better, stronger, faster than he was before.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:2 reviews, 140 commits, 11 PRs in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrea's commits primarily focus on documentation updates and improvements within the wxPython Phoenix project. The changes involve ReSTifying XML documentation, adding overviews for various wxPython components, converting snippets from C++ to Python, and correcting typos. The contributions include creating detailed guides and overviews, thereby enhancing the usability and understandability of the wxPython API.
wxpythonpythoncross-platformgui-frameworkgui-toolkit
wxWidgets/wxPython-Classic
Aug 2007 - Apr 2012
This is the repository for "Classic" wxPython. All new development is happening in the Phoenix project at https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:56 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributed to the wxPython Classic project by enhancing and modifying the `CustomTreeCtrl` widget. Their work included adding new methods, implementing features like `GetPrevVisible`, correcting existing functionalities such as `SortChildren`, and introducing `GetMaxWidth`. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with the `FlatNotebook`, `HyperLinkCtrl`, and `GenButton` widgets, along with minor bug fixes and style enhancements. These changes indicate a focus on improving the existing functionality and usability of core components within the wxPython library.
wxpythonwxwidgets
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