Aarón López
Senior Engineer In Electronic System Development at OEPS - Open Ephys Production Site
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAarón López is a Senior Engineer in Electronic System Development with a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering and over 13 years building embedded systems, FPGA architectures, and low-level interfaces for neuroscience research. As a long-time developer and Senior Lead Engineer for the Open Ephys initiative, he has driven both hardware and full-stack software efforts—contributing to GUI, plugin frameworks, and data conversion tools that support multichannel electrophysiology workflows. He combines academic rigor with production engineering, leading development and maintenance at OEPS and previously at the Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante. Known for debugging difficult cross-platform issues and improving data loaders/converters, he helps make complex neurotech reliable and reproducible. Based in Valencia, he is passionate about future-facing technologies and regularly bridges open-source research tools with practical lab deployments.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Ingeniería eléctrica y electrónica, Engineer's degree, Ingeniería eléctrica y electrónica at Universidad Politécnica de ValenciaPhd, Electronic Engineering, Phd, Electronic Engineering at Polytechnic University of ValenciaUniversitat Politècnica de València
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (20)
debug10
c-language10
load-data10
convert10
plugin-development10
matlab10
file-conversion10
file-format10
data-loading10
front-end-development10
data-processing10
data-handling10
cprogramming-language10
dataloader10
c119
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
open-ephys/GUI
Dec 2012 - Feb 2016
Software for electrophysiology data acquisition (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:348 commits, 14 PRs, 87 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aarón primarily contributed to the improvement and debugging of the graphical user interface (GUI) for electrophysiology data acquisition. Their work involved fixing a variety of issues including typos in configuration files, and bugs in how the program interacted with the underlying operating system (Windows). They also worked on solving issues related to window drift, and crashes.
data-acquisitionpythoncomputational-neuroscienceelectrophysiology-dataopen-science
open-ephys/plugin-GUI
Sep 2015 - Apr 2021
Software for processing, recording, and visualizing multichannel electrophysiology data
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 535 commits, 77 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Aarón's primary contribution appears to be enhancing and expanding the plugin's graphical user interface (GUI) functionality. The commits show development of new components, adding features, and adapting the GUI for multiple applications. They also worked on integrating new plugin framework components, ensuring the software can properly manage and utilize plugins.
connectivityneurosciencepythonmultichannelcomputational-neuroscience
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