Salvatore Pinto works as a Digital Innovation Engineer in the AI and Data Science section of the ESA Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality, where he supports several Earth Observation activities related to Planet, Climate, Green Transition and bringing EO data to policy and decision makers. He holds a master degree in Electronics engineering with a specialization in Telecommunications. He joined ESA first as a Trainee in 2008, and worked then with ESA and EUMETSAT in data processing, HPC, cloud computing, AI and other innovative technologies. Throughout his career, his primary focus has been in supporting scientific and commercial exploitation of EO satellite data, developing innovative services and fostering the adoption of new emerging technologies. He is an advocate of Open Science, FAIR data, Open Source Software development and Open Source AI models.