Andres Vazquez
Senior Software Developer at Open Knowledge Foundation
Mendiolaza, Córdoba, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolAndres Vazquez is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience building Python/Django systems, open data platforms and production-grade ETL pipelines. He is a longtime contributor to CKAN and its extensions—improving harvesting reliability, spatial search, and performance optimizations used by major public data portals. Comfortable across cloud environments (AWS/GCP), CI/CD, Postgres/PostGIS and search engines like Solr/Elasticsearch, he pairs backend engineering with hands-on sysadmin experience. He has led municipal open government projects, shaped open data policy, and taught data journalism—bridging technical delivery with public-facing impact. A regular speaker and podcaster, Andres combines clear communication and teaching skills with pragmatic engineering to make complex data systems usable.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Diplomado en Ciencia de Datos, Data science, Diplomado en Ciencia de Datos, Data science at Universidad Nacional de CórdobaAnalista, Analista de sistemas, Analista, Analista de sistemas at Mariano Moreno
English
Github Skills (25)
postgresql10
python10
testing10
geospatial10
spatial-data10
geo10
ckan10
api10
spatial10
shapely10
json9
integrations9
database-design9
emailjs9
e-mail9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
ckan/ckanext-spatial
Sep 2019 - Sep 2022
Geospatial extension for CKAN
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Andres contributed to the geospatial extension for CKAN by addressing several issues and adding features. Their work included fixing broken links in documentation, allowing for multiple geometries, and ensuring compatibility with older versions of the Shapely library. They also added a test for GeometryCollection, indicating a focus on improving the functionality and robustness of the spatial search capabilities.
ckangeospatialgis
ckan/ckanext-harvest
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Remote harvesting extension for CKAN
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 19 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Andres primarily contributed to the backend logic of the CKAN extension. They implemented features for sending harvest job notifications, including the addition of new configuration options and email templates. They refactored the code to define and use a chained action to customize notification recipients, and improved the error logging, with a focus on improving harvest job management and reliability. Furthermore, they added indexes to the database schema for performance optimization.
harvestingckan
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