Summary
David Carrera is a Technical Lead and seasoned geospatial data engineer with 14 years of professional experience and over 20 years working with GIS technologies, currently driving data product industrialization and API-enabled geospatial services at unica360. He blends deep hands-on skills in PostGIS, PyQGIS, Python ETL and OSM/POI processing with project leadership—optimizing SQL and Python pipelines for scalability, automation and international deployment. As a trainer at Barcelona Activa and long-time freelance developer, he regularly translates complex spatial requirements into production-ready databases, QGIS plugins and map viewers, and maintains a public GitHub with many of his tools. Comfortable operating across consultancy, product and teaching roles, he’s equally at ease refactoring legacy systems for performance as designing new geospatial APIs and validation workflows.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate in SAP R/3 integrated management, Postgraduate in SAP R/3 integrated management at Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, Catalan, English