Alberto García-plaza
Associate Professor (Profesor Permanente Laboral)
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolAlberto García-plaza is an Associate Professor and researcher with a Ph.D. in Computer Science, combining academic teaching at UNED with nearly a decade of industry experience in data mining, cybersecurity intelligence, and software development analytics. He spent six years at Bitergia consulting on open source and inner source practices while building analytics stacks with Python, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, and earlier worked on text- and data-mining solutions for security and recommendation systems. His research roots in NLP, information retrieval and fuzzy clustering (PhD thesis) inform a pragmatic approach to applying ML and IR techniques to real-world engineering problems. Funded early in his Bitergia tenure by a Torres Quevedo grant, he has balanced grant-supported research with customer-facing consulting and account management. A visiting researcher stint at Aalto University and long history of teaching distance-learning tools underscore his commitment to both international collaboration and scalable education. Based in Greater Madrid, he blends rigorous academic methods with hands-on engineering to help organizations measure and improve software development practices.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Apto Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Apto Cum Laude at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.Master in Telematic and Computer Systems, Computer Engineering, Master in Telematic and Computer Systems, Computer Engineering at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English
Github Skills (68)
panels10
widgets10
dashboard9
elasticsearch9
evolution9
nlp8
lda8
sentiment8
orchestrate8
typescript8
dotplot7
editor7
orchestration7
monitoring7
sentiment-analysis7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alpgarcia/grimoirelab-sirmordred
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Orchestrate the execution of GrimoireLab tools to produce a dashboard
Contributions:40 pushes, 13 branches in 2 years 1 month
grimoirelabexecutionorchestratedashboard
alpgarcia/grimoirelab-kidash
May 2018 - Mar 2022
Kidash: A GrimoireLab tool & library to manage Kibana/Kibiter visualizations and dashboards
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
dashboardskibanavisualizationsgrimoirelabtool-library
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