Summary
José Calvo is a software engineer and startup CTO based in Madrid with 14 years building scalable web, real-time and ML-infused systems. He is a polyglot who ships production services in Elixir, Ruby, Python and low-level C/Objective-C, with a strong emphasis on TDD, maintainable OO design and performance tuning. His background spans R&D and game/graphics work — he built an OpenGL ES engine and a C handwriting-recognition library to launch the iPhone game Doku Draw — and he is the author of the Genetica Ruby gem for genetic algorithms. He has led large-scale recommendation and search projects, built real-time metrics platforms with Elixir and designed microservices for high-throughput matching problems. Currently he combines hands-on engineering at Hugging Face with his CTO/co-founder role at imglab, bridging research, ML infrastructure and product delivery. Colleagues note his bookish curiosity and knack for turning complex algorithms into pragmatic, maintainable code.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico Superior en Administración de Sistemas Informáticos, Computer Science, Técnico Superior en Administración de Sistemas Informáticos, Computer Science at I.E.S Marqués de Comares
Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Sistemas, Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Sistemas at Universidad de Córdoba
English, Spanish