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As a member of the GNOME Circle committee, I review applications and engage in discussions to keep this program healthy and aligned with our values.

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As a member of the Foundation my mission is to bring both, global and latin american, communities together to empower a new generation of contributors in this region. More specifically:● Shaped the University Outreach initiative and contributed to events in Asia, Africa and Latin America.● Launched the GNOME Circle program to promote independent application developers.● Organized GNOME Latam, the first region-wide GNOME conference for Spanish and Portuguese speakers.As a member of the technical community:● Created Flatseal, a graphical utility to review and modify Flatpak permissions.● Created Portfolio, a minimalist file manager for Linux mobile devices.● Created Sugarapp, a toolkit used to port over 25 Sugar learning applications to GNOME.● Contributed to the development of the new Flathub backend.● Contributed to the development of other community applications.

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Developed Ingestum, a unified content ingestion framework that enabled natural language processing experts to seamlessly process a wide variety of data sources and helped them stay focused on the problems that mattered to our customers. Developed a scalable ingestion service that enabled the creation of all company products. Represented the company in FLOSS events.Technologies: Python, Tesseract, OpenCV, DeepSpeech, FastAPI, Redis, RQ, Docker and many others.

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Developed the framework that allowed the Endless OS to provide dozens of offline content applications, fulfilling its asynchronous-internet promise. Created core components for the HACK platform, turning an idea into a commercial product. Represented the company in the FLOSS community, demonstrating our contributions and leadership. More specifically:As a member of the SDK and Apps team:● Maintained and developed a modular-framework, to ease the creation and maintenance of content applications for the Linux desktop.● Created and maintained dozens of content applications, together with designers, in multidisciplinary teams.● Developed an open-source alternative tool for packing content, to enable the creation of content applications for third-party developers.● Developed a content-delivery pipeline based on flatpak-extensions, to unify the OS updates strategy.● Contributed to the development of Emeus, a constraint-based layout manager for GTK.● Contributed to many other misc components of the apps and desktop stack.● Represented the company in community events, such as GUADEC and GNOME hackfests.● Led daily stand-ups and assigning tasks to our team, on my team leader absence.As a member of the Hack team:● Led the ideation process and prototyping of toy-apps.● Developed the hack-able interface between toy-apps, hack-panels and the GNOME shell.● Developed hack-panels for toy-apps.● Developed the central-service to store and track user's progression.● Contributed to other misc components of the hack ecosystem.Technologies: JavaScript, Python, C, Meson, Linux, Debian packaging, Open Build Service, Jenkins, Jasmine, Flatpak, Git, WebKit, D-Bus, GTK and other libraries from the GNOME stack.

Paraguay

Created the software stack for an award-winning open source robot designed for teaching kids to code, achieving true ease-of-use and platform-independence. More specifically:● Defined the technical scope and learning vision.● Developed the robot's default firmware and the Turtle Blocks JavaScript plugin.● Built many strategic relationships with NGOs, government and community.● Presented the project in many education and technology events. ● Taught programming with our robot at workshops and events.Technologies: JavaScript, C, Git and Arduino.

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Developed and maintained the Sugar desktop, adapting it to the diverse needs of our users worldwide. Participated in Google open source programs, mentoring the next generation of Sugar developers. Promoted our initiatives in FLOSS events, extending our community reach and relationships. Managed releases, keeping Linux distributions up-to-date. More specifically:As a software developer:● Extended Sugar NetworkManager front-end to support 3G devices.● Started the collaborative development of the multi-selection & batch operations extensions for the Journal.● Developed a mechanism to protect critical educational content from being removed.● Developed the web-services framework by using social networks as a collaboration platform.● Designed and developed the notifications system.● Developed backup and restore tools.● Developed display brightness controls.● Fixed bugs in many applications.● Provided tools for the i18n team.As a newcomers mentor:● Participated in mentoring programs like Google Code-In (2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015) and Google Summer of Code (2013, 2014 and 2015).● Promoted the Sugar desktop and our community in Latin-american conferences.As released manager:● Managed Sugar desktop releases from v0.102 to v0.108.Technologies: Python, C, JavaScript, various web frameworks, Git, Autotools, Linux, D-Bus, GTK and other libraries from the GNOME stack.

Paraguay

Coordinated, promoted and mentored students to support a responsible integration of ICT in society, at Juky Paraguay group from the Polytechnic Faculty. More specifically:● Provided free-of-cost Linux, Git, Python and GTK programming courses.● Built customized Linux and Sugar distribution.● Researched on Improving UI accessibility.● Researched on the use of Serious Games.● Provided free-of-cost educational robotics workshops to rural schools. ● Promoted the local talent by encouraging students to contribute to the open source community.

Paraguay

Provided guidance to develop interoperability mechanisms, defined development processes and provided some in-house hacking, at the Applied Research Cluster from the Polytechnic Faculty. More specifically:● Applied well-known design patterns and principles to design the framework stack.● Assisted with the design process of services interaction mechanisms.● Applied well-known development methodologies and tools.● Designed a continuous integration mechanism based on Gitorious and Jenkins.● Developed custom plugins for Redmine.● Maintained many infrastructure services.

Caacupé

Contributed to the development of the OLPC OS Builder project. Coordinated localization efforts. Coordinated community activities and assisted on-site technicians.

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Developed an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution, enabling a new line of devices. Packaged applications and dependencies, achieving features parity with existing devices. Coordinated efforts with Debian package maintainers, ensuring long-term sustainability. Developed customized features for the Sugar desktop, improving the user experience.Technologies: Linux, Debian packaging , Git, Python, GTK and other libraries from the GNOME stack.

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Led the development of a Fedora-based distribution, successfully addressing our audience-specific needs. Developed statistics and feedback services, both for Fedora and Android, providing valuable information to our decision-making process. More specifically:As the Fedora-based distribution maintainer:● Developed and upstreamed customized features and fixes for the Sugar desktop.● Developed tools for managing system packages and user applications updates and testing.● Developed a statistics reporting system to reflect applications usage.● Developed a progress reporting system for the OneAcademy teacher training application.● Developed the integration bits between the OneSupport application and the Zendesk support platform.● Built regular images builds for schools.As a contributor to the Android-based distribution:● Developed the statistics reporting system to reflect applications usage.Technologies: Tornado web server, MySQL, RPM packaging, Git, Python, GTK and other libraries form the GNOME stack, Java and Android SDK.

Paraguay

Developed the logistics, traceability and anti-theft services for the One Laptop Per Child program,making it possible to hand-out of dozens of devices. Co-created the Dextrose Linux distribution,providing an improved and localized experience to our users. More specifically:As a lead software developer:● Developed the logistics, traceability and anti-theft web systems for their One Laptop Per Child program.● Co-created the Dextrose Linux distribution.● Participated in the open source community in behalf of Paraguay Educa, in order to upstream code.● Coordinated collaboration initiatives between many OLPC deployments.As a consultant:● Trained the team in open source technologies.● Managed virtual machines, servers and services.Technologies: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Git, JavaScript, Qooxdoo, Linux, RPM packaging, Python, C, D-Bus, GTK and other libraries from the GNOME stack.

Madrid Y Alrededores, España

Collaborated with research and development at the Decoroso Crespo Laboratory. More specifically:● Researched on the state of the art for information visualization systems.● Developed the visualization pipeline and interaction model for a visualization system for text-document collections, in virtual reality environments.● Published academic papers.Technologies: C#, Git and Unity3D.

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Led the development of the Dextrose Linux distribution, successfully adapting it to a broaderworldwide audience. Managed communications with other technical stakeholders, keeping ourteam and our prioritization process informed. More specifically:● Managed communications with deployment technical stakeholders.● Managed system packages updates.● Developed customized features for the Sugar desktop and Dextrose, like a: - NetworkManager GUI to allow sharing 3G Internet access over ad-hoc networks. - Non-intrusive notification system prototype for the Sugar desktop. - Feedback gathering tool, back-end and GUI for the Sugar desktop. - YUM-based automatic update mechanism for operating system packages. - Tool for managing applications updates.Technologies: Linux, RPM packaging, Git, Python, D-Bus, GTK and other libraries from the GNOME stack.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Software And Systems

Engineer'S Degree, Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science