David Méndez

Spain

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David Méndez is a software engineer with a decade of experience who began coding at 12 and has blended academic training across Spain and Sweden with practical open-source development. He contributed to JabRef—an established Java desktop reference manager—where he focused on backend refactoring, menu/UX improvements and dependency modernization during a Google Summer of Code project. Comfortable across academic and volunteer settings, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on product sensibility gained from early client work wiring an online store. His background spans engineering and postgraduate studies plus experience in communications and marketing roles, giving him an uncommon mix of technical depth and stakeholder-facing skills. Based in Spain, he continues to volunteer on self-initiated projects while evolving his craft in Java and software design.

10 years of coding experience

Engineer's degree, Engineer's degree at University of A Coruña

Master of Science - MSc (Exchange Program), Master of Science - MSc (Exchange Program) at Chalmers University of Technology

Bachelor’s degree (4 years), Bachelor’s degree (4 years) at University of Alicante

Master’s degree, Master’s degree at COSO Foundation

General English Language Programme, General English Language Programme at Cambridge Seminars College

Spanish, English

Github Skills (6)

bibtex10

javas10

biblatex10

javafx10

java10

front-end-development9

Programming languages (6)

JavaCSSShellJavaScriptHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

JabRef/jabref

Mar 2019 - Oct 2019

Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:95 commits, 30 PRs, 19 pushes in 8 months

Contributions summary:David primarily worked on refactoring the graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases. They made changes to the main menu structure (tabs & icons) and improved the file handling. The commits involved code modifications in the Java source code (JabRefFrame.java) to modify the menu's structure and improve user experience. The user also switched library dependencies.

reference-manageracademic-publicationsjavafxlatexjavafx-desktop-apps

davidemdot/FacebookGroupScraper

Aug 2016 - Feb 2018

Contributions:15 commits, 16 pushes, 17 comments in 1 year 6 months

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