Summary
David Menéndez is a seasoned web developer with 14 years of experience building and maintaining web systems across research, nonprofit and commercial sectors, currently contributing at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and as a researcher at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. He blends hands-on development, systems administration and QA from roles at Telefónica, BBVA and multiple universities, bringing a pragmatic approach to scalable, reproducible web services. David has a strong open-source and community focus—organizing free-software events and sharing code across repositories—which complements his academic work on repository analysis and AI-driven name-gender detection. Comfortable switching between research and production contexts, he often tackles ethically-driven and scientific projects for foundations and research institutions. Based in Madrid, he pairs practical engineering with an interest in methodological rigor from his postgraduate studies in social science research methods.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
Máster en Metodología de la Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, Máster en Metodología de la Investigación en Ciencias Sociales at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Doctorando en TIC, Análisis de repositorios, Inteligencia Artificial, Detección de Género a partir del nombre, Doctorando en TIC, Análisis de repositorios, Inteligencia Artificial, Detección de Género a partir del nombre at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
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