Noé Casas

Noé Casas holds a PhD in deep learning applied to machine translation from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). With 18 years of experience as a software developer, including 2 years dedicated to data science, and a background spanning 5 years in natural language processing and deep learning technologies. He is also an enthusiast of language learning and is currently embarking on his entrepreneurial journey as the founder of Langtern (https://langtern.com), a platform aimed at helping language teachers and students achieve their respective goals more effectively.

Vyron Vasileiadis

Vyron holds an MSc in Space Science (UOP, NOA) and BSc in Computer Science (UOP) and is currently pursuing an MSc in Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies (DUTH, NCSR Democritus). He has several years of experience as a software engineer and has joined Qilimanjaro to aid in the development of low-level software for interacting with quantum hardware. In everyday life, you can find him hiking, watching series or attending music festivals.

Adrià Blanco

Adrià is a last year BSc student in Physics at UB. Before joining Qilimanjaro’s QaaS team as a junior software engineer, he carried out two internships. First, he collaborated with Dr. Miquel Montero to develop teaching material for Master Students related to Quant Finance. Then, he worked as a Trainee Data Analyst for Schneider Electric, where he was introduced to AWS services. His professional interests span across Data Science, Quantitative Finance and Quantum Computing. In fact, in his BSc Final Thesis he is exploring how quantum annealing will help to solve very complex financial problems, such as portfolio optimization. He would define himself as proactive, intense and fast-learner. Always eager to learn and broaden his horizons.

Guillermo Abad

Guillermo studied Physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) where he did his Bachelor’s Thesis about Skyrmions in the superconducting group, where after graduating, he kept researching them and collaborating as an Associate Professor of Computer Modelling. Meanwhile, he also did an MSc in Theoretical Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB), where he did his Master’s Thesis about QED in 1+1dim. He then continued his career into the industry, working at Glovo for 7 months, where he made up his mind about entering the quantum computation world, joining Qilimanjaro’s Software Team, where he is using and growing his knowledge in quantum physics and computer science with the development of software to control our quantum hardware.

Javier Sabariego

Once he obtained his MSc in High Energy Physics (UAB, IFAE), he started his professional career working as a backend web developer for Air-Fi, a small communications company were he would contribute to the development of a wifi-based Indoor Positioning System (ISP). Eventually, he would become the Product Manager of the ISP. His professional and academic profiles would come together at Qilimanjaro, where he is currently a developer for the Quantum as a Service (QaaS) project.

Christian Adell

Christian Adell is a network software engineer who has played multiple roles related to networking and IT automation. Currently, as principal architect at Network to Code, he is focused on building network automation solutions for diverse use cases, with great emphasis on open source software. He is passionate about learning and helping others to be happier, but also has more hobbies than hours in the day, so working remotely from Barcelona gives him the time and the space to achieve his dreams. He is co-author of the book “Network Programmability and Automation, 2nd Edition” by O’Reilly. He can be found on Twitter as @chadell0.

Pavel Sulimov

PhD in Computer Science. Ex-Lead Data Scientist in gambling (BetVictor, Gibraltar). Research Associate at the Institute of Applied Information Technology (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland).

Ferran Jovell

PyBCN Organizer

Ferran Jovell is a physicist with Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering. His interests lie in mathematics, programming and food. In the later stages of the doctorate, he started programming more seriously to analyze some data which later turned into a programming career that now has turned into Sofware Engineering. Currently working as a Senior Backend and Infrastructure engineer at izi record.

Alberto Labarga

With a background in Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics, for the last fifteen years I have been involved in biomedical data science projects and systems administration, both at University and research centers, and as professional activity at several start-ups company which I contributed to create.

Currently I lead the Health Data Unit at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where we develop tools and best practices for secure health data management and analysis within and open science environment: FAIR data, federated learning, virtual research environments, etc. We also are applying artificial intelligence and natural language processing to electronic health records. We process thousands of clinical records daily, applying latest technologies to extract information from texts, images or genomes, in a cloud neutral containerized environment using Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, etc.

Diego Giaquinta

Con más de 10 años de experiencia en IT , me desempeño como DevOps en una destacada empresa de Telecomunicaciones, donde mi enfoque principal es la Observabilidad. La facilidad y versatilidad de Python me ha llevado a utilizar este lenguaje de programación de manera constante en mi trabajo diario, donde lo aplico para automatizar procesos y procesar datos e información mediante microservicios.

Oriol Abril Pla

Oriol discovered his passion for computational statistics and open source during his MSc in Astrophysics and has been working the topic since then. He started contributing to ArviZ and PyMC (two Python libraries related to Bayesian modeling) in 2019, joining their core teams not long after that. He started working in academia but he left after some years in order to be able to work more freely and collaboratively on open source, software and knowledge sharing. His main areas of interest are data visualization, model and inference diagnostics, model comparison, and prior elicitation. Within open source projects, he has also dedicated a large part of his work to documentation, governance and DEI. He currently works as a consultant with PyMC Labs, as an instructor on Intuitive Bayes and as open source maintainer for PyMC and ArviZ.

Gabriel de Maeztu

Camilo Chacón Sartori

Camilo Chacón Sartori es doctorante en el Instituto de Investigación en Inteligencia Artificial (IIIA-CSIC) y en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Ha publicado tres libros: «Principios de programación», «Mentes geniales. La vida y obra de 12 grandes informáticos» y «Computación y programación funcional». Su principal proyecto, «Érase una vez un algoritmo», es un pódcast y un newsletter donde reflexiona sobre temas técnicos, científicos y filosóficos concernientes a la informática.

Israel Saeta Pérez

Fan de Python, el software libre en general y organizar saraos. Socio fundador de PyBCN y ex-presidente de Python España.

Emanuel Frazao

Emanuel Frazao is a mathematician and programmer with 9 years of experience in the academic sector, ed tech companies and freelancing. He has strong skills and passionate about statistics and deep learning. Actually working as a R&D Engineer in Synopsis inc.

Natàlia Padilla

PyBCN Secretary

Alicia Morales Carrasco

PyBCN Organizer

Data Engineer deeply dedicated to crafting data pipelines, streamlining workflows using Spark, Scala, and Python, and remaining vigilant about emerging technologies. Currently managing data integration and ETL modernization efforts, contributing to data-driven decision-making.

Patricia Lamadrid Robles

PyBCN Collaborator

I’m a data enthusiast who spends my days building and maintaining projects that process large volumes of data using mainly Python and Scala.

Elisabeth Ortega Carrasco

PyLadiesBCN Collaborator

Chemist and Computer Engineer evolved to Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry and converted to HPC Specialist. Quantum Computing enthusiast.