Abel Perez
Software Engineer
Esparragosa de Lares, Extremadura, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Perez is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience and a formal FPII qualification in Systems Administration. He brings two decades of domain knowledge from the aviation industry and practical skills in legacy and modern stacks including FORTRAN, VB6 and .NET (VB and C#). Abel contributes to open-source GIS tooling—improving DotSpatial’s projection metadata, label drawing order, reprojection cloning, and fixing extent/legend bugs—demonstrating attention to geospatial accuracy and map rendering. His career also reflects adaptability and strong work ethic, having taken diverse roles outside IT when needed and remaining willing to relocate for the right opportunity. Based in Extremadura, he pairs rural practicality (outdoor hobbies and machinery experience) with solid backend engineering strengths. Colleagues describe him as reliable, detail-focused, and effective at improving legacy systems for continued operational use.
8 years of coding experience
Tecnico Superior de Administracion de Sistemas Informaticos, FPII, Tecnico Superior de Administracion de Sistemas Informaticos, FPII at IES albarregas
Github Skills (8)
geographical-information-system10
projection10
gis10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
asp-net9
net9
dotnet9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DotSpatial/DotSpatial
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Geographic information system library written for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 12 commits, 31 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Abel primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the geographic information system library. Their contributions included adding a "Name" property to geographic projection information, improving the drawing order of labels in the map control, and implementing a function to clone and reproject feature sets. The user also addressed several bugs related to extent calculations and moving items within the legend, ensuring more accurate map rendering and user experience.
geographic-information-systemdotnetcsharpsystem-informationgeographic
sindizzy/DotSpatial
Dec 2018 - Dec 2024
Geographic information system library written for .NET
Contributions:47 pushes, 23 branches in 6 years 1 month
geographic-information-systemdotnetcsharpsystem-informationgeographic
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