Aldo Méndez
Associate Professor
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolAldo Méndez is an Associate Professor and researcher at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with 15 years of experience bridging web engineering, networks, and next-generation internet research. He combines academic leadership and hands-on software development—contributing full-stack improvements to the open-source ging/social_stream project, where he enhanced UX, real-time features like video chat, and XMPP integrations. His work spans teaching, supervising research in GING, managing national and European projects, and delivering production web services. Aldo holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering and formal teacher training under the European Higher Education Area, reflecting a strong mix of research depth and pedagogical skill. Based in Madrid, he brings a practitioner’s focus on stability and usability to distributed social platforms and networked services, often translating research prototypes into real-world deployments.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD. in Telecommunications Engineering, PhD. in Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
xmpp10
javascript10
backend9
back-end-development9
rails8
ruby-on-rails8
front-end-development8
ui-design7
uid7
git7
game-development6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ging/social_stream
Dec 2010 - Jan 2015
A framework for building distributed social network websites
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 push, 7 branches in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Aldo primarily contributed to the frontend and backend of a social network platform. They implemented a new game core version, fixed bugs related to user status, and refactored the XMPP client for improved functionality. The user also added features for video chat and made bug fixes and minor changes to various parts of the codebase, including the UI and persistence layers. These changes suggest a focus on improving the overall user experience and the stability of the platform.
social-networktwitterdistributed
CyberAula/vish_editor
Mar 2012 - Jun 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 1639 commits, 1 PR in 8 years 4 months
javascripthtml5html5-application
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