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Resume · Jorge Sanz

Short bio

Jorge Sanz is a geospatial technologist from Valencia, Spain. With a Cartography and Geodesy Engineering background, he has worked in Geographical Information Systems and Software Engineering since 2004.

After two years as a postgraduate researcher at his alma mater, Jorge moved to Prodevelop, a Valencian software company, where he took different roles: developer, consultant, lecturer, and technical management. In 2015, Jorge moved to CARTO, a successful Spanish startup where he first took a sales engineer position and later also became the support team manager as well. In 2019, Jorge joined Elastic as a Geospatial Engineer to help maintain the company mapping service for Kibana users, contributing to the Kibana Maps and Dashboards applications.

Jorge was one of the first Spanish-speaking OSGeo community members, joining the foundation charter in 2008, contributing as a community member for the Spanish Language Local Chapter, and as a long-term member of the Systems Administration Committee. Over the years, Jorge also spent time on the Incubation and Marketing committees and the OSGeo Live project. Since 2011, he has also been one of the main coordinators of the local OSGeo microchapter called Geoinquietos Valencia. Finally, Jorge has been an OpenStreetMap casual contributor since 2007, lecturing about the project at conferences and workshops and helping coordinate mapathons for OSM and the Humanitarian OSM Team in Valencia.

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

Many years ago, I've volunteered in environmental projects to fight against forest fires.
I was one of the founders of the Drupal local group in Valencia around 2011.
I've helped on marine research about cetaceans on summer camps between 2013 and 2017.
More recently (2022) I've joined Cibervoluntarios[7] to do trainings on basic Internet skills to seniors and young people.

7: https://www.cibervoluntarios.org/

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