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Resume · Jorge Sanz

Links

• Website: https://jorgesanz.net[1]
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsanz[2]
• Github: https://github.com/jsanz[3]
• Curriculum: https://mnf.red/jorgesanz[4]

1: https://jorgesanz.net

2: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsanz

3: https://github.com/jsanz

4: https://mnf.red/jorgesanz

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.»

Interests

I'm interested in all things geospatial data, cartography, sailing, and software engineering and technology in general.

Work Experience

[2019-present] Principal Software Engineer at Elastic

https://www.elastic.co

• Data engineering for the Elastic Application Experience (Kibana) team
• Testing, and minor contributions in code and documentation to the Kibana Maps application
• Maintenance of the different EMS software components: data pipeline, basemaps, website
• Curating geospatial datasets for the Elastic Maps Service (EMS)
• Development and maintenance of the EMS offline offering as a Docker image

[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 for the deployment of several GIS projects since 2008
• Lecturer on FOSS4G technologies
• 2009-2011 Responsible of company social media channels
• 2008-2009 Development 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)

Education

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

Volunteer experience

OpenStreetMap

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

• Member of the project since 2007
• Member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation since 2016
• More active on advocating (talks, workshops) and HOT[5] promotion

5: 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[6] project
• Member of the Incubation Committee from 2008 to 2012
• Translator into Spanish of the Website in 2007

6: 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've helped on marine research about cetaceans on summer camps.
• I've volunteered in environmental projects to fight against forest fires.
• I was one of the founders of the Drupal local group in Valencia
• More recently I've joined Cibervoluntarios[7] to do trainings on basic Internet skills to seniors and young people.

7: 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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