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Resume · Jorge Sanz

Contact

**Location**: València, Spain
**e-mail**: `hello [at] jorgesanz [dot] net`

Links

http://jorgesanz.net

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsanz

https://github.com/jsanz

Motto

«To help building a bridge between computer science and geospatial, understanding both worlds and working to get the best of them to create great products.»

Education

2001-2004 Cartography and Geodesy engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV)
1997-2001 Surveying engineering, UPV

Interests

All things geospatial data, cartography, software engineering and sailing, but maybe showing some of the books on my library may serve :-)

Library: maps and sailing [IMG]

Library: cartography [IMG]

Library: computer science [IMG]

Work Experience

2019-present Data Engineer at Elastic

https://www.elastic.co

Data engineering for the Kibana Maps team

2015-2019 Solutions Engineer at CARTO

http://carto.com

Support Team Manager (since 2016)
Pre-sales engineer
Developing proofs of concepts, testing integrations, etc.
Talks and trainings at all kinds of events about CARTO technologies, Open Data, etc
Support and training to partners and enterprise customer

2006-2015 Geospatial consultant at Prodevelop

http://www.prodevelop.es

Developer/analyst of web projects: server side components (mainly in Java), OGC and tile servers, front-end development
Responsible on the deployment of several GIS projects since 2008
Lecturer on FOSS4G technologies
2009-2011 responsible of company social media channels
2008-2009 developer of the company website
2006-2008 developer/analyst of gvSIG ArcIMS, Oracle and Normalization extensions

2008-2012 gvSIG project

http://www.gvsig.org

Technical collaborations manager
Coordinator of the gvSIG Technical Steering Committee
Member of gvSIG Technical Steering Committee
Co-admin of gvSIG social media channels
Maintainer of the gvSIG blog, outreach portal and blog aggregator planet

2004-2006 Researcher and lecturer at UPV

http://www.upv.es/entidades/ETSIGCT/index-en.html

Researcher on a funded project to study local administration GIS needs
Lecturer on UMN MapServer
Author of a published MapServer book (in Spanish)

Volunteer experience

OpenStreetMap

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/XuRxO

Member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation since 2016
Member of the project since 2007
More active on advocating (talks, workshops) and HOT[1] promotion

1: https://hotosm.org/

OSGeo Foundation

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz

Charter Member since 2008
Member of the board of Directors from 2013 to 2015
Since 2012 co-admin of the OSGeo planet and the mailing list server and Nabble archive
gvSIG package maintainer (until 2014) and Spanish Language coordination team member for the OSGeo Live[2] project
Member of the Incubation Committee from 2008 to 2012
Translator into Spanish of the Website in 2007

2: http://live.osgeo.org

OSGeo Spanish Language Local Chapter (OSGeo-ES)

https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Cap%C3%ADtulo_Local_de_la_comunidad_hispanohablante

Member of the initial group that founded the Local Chapter
Member of the Board of Directors from 2008 to 2012

Geoinquietos Valencia

http://geoinquietos.org/grupos/valencia/

Member of the team that coordinates the activities of the group, workshops and talks mainly

AESIG

President of the Spanish Association for Geographical Information Systems between 2016 and 2019

Other volunteering

I was part of the Drupal local group in Valencia (DrupalVal[3], in Spanish)
I've volunteered in environmental projects to fight against forest fires.
I've helped on marine research about cetaceans on summer camps.
More recently I've joined Cibervoluntarios[4] to do trainings on basic Internet skills to seniors and young people.

3: http://groups.drupal.org/comunidad-valenciana

4: https://www.cibervoluntarios.org/

Other

I do have a driver license and a coastal sailing skipper license (even I can't call myself a skipper yet) but I don't own a car nor a boat :-)

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