Resume · Jorge Sanz
Published on 2023-01-05
Contact
- Location: València, Spain
- e-mail:
hello [at] jorgesanz [dot] net
Links
http://www.linkedin.com/in/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 :-)
Work Experience
2019-present Data Engineer at Elastic
- Data engineering for the Kibana Maps team
2015-2019 Solutions Engineer at CARTO
- 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
- 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
- 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 promotion
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 project
- Member of the Incubation Committee from 2008 to 2012
- Translator into Spanish of the Website in 2007
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, 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 to do trainings on basic Internet skills to seniors and young people.
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 :-)