Edison Mera
Senior Software Engineer at Process Design Center
Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolEdison Mera is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining knowledge-driven systems, currently developing the expert system Prosyn™ for the chemical industry from his base in Breda, Netherlands. Trained as a computer scientist with a PhD focused on logic programming and static analysis, he brings deep expertise in Prolog and program analysis from more than a decade of research and teaching at Spanish universities. He is an active contributor to the SWI-Prolog core, improving meta-predicate handling and dialect compatibility—work that influences a widely used Prolog implementation. Known for turning formal analyses into practical tooling, he combines rigorous academic foundations with long-term product delivery in complex, rule-heavy domains. Colleagues value his ability to navigate low-level language internals while keeping an eye on real-world applicability and collaboration across industry partners.
13 years of coding experience
Graduate In Mathematics, Specialized in Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, 96.7, Graduate In Mathematics, Specialized in Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, 96.7 at Escuela Politécnica NacionalPhD in Computer Science, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, French, Dutch, German
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Github Skills (2)
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Github contributions (5)
SWI-Prolog/swipl-devel
Sep 2012 - May 2017
SWI-Prolog Main development repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Edison primarily focused on enhancing the SWI-Prolog development repository, making modifications to the core logic of the Prolog system. Their work involved refining the `prolog_codewalk` library by passing detailed term position information and improving the `clause_info/4` predicate to better handle meta-predicates. Furthermore, the user updated the Ciao dialect support by incorporating various Ciao-specific predicates and features, along with improvements to the meta predicate expansions. They also addressed several bugs related to position information and Ciao dialect compatibility.
datalogprologlogic-programmingswiswi-prolog
edisonm/idfpml
Nov 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:27 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
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