Emilio Velis
Executive Director at Internet Society
San Salvador, El Salvador
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolEmilio Velis is an engineer and non-profit executive with 12 years of experience steering open-knowledge, sustainability, and resilience initiatives from San Salvador. As Executive Director of The Appropedia Foundation and former leader of community tech projects like Reacción and Fab Lab El Salvador, he blends technical know-how with grassroots mobilization to make practical development knowledge widely accessible. He serves on international governance bodies including the Internet Society and Global Innovation Gathering, bringing policy-minded oversight to digital development efforts. An adjunct instructor at Brandeis and ESEN, he translates field experience into curricula on digital technologies for sustainable development. Notably, his work emphasizes decentralized, low-tech communications for disaster response—an approach that privileges community autonomy over complex infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineer, Engineer's degree, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineer at Universidad de El Salvador
Spanish, English, Portuguese, French
Stackoverflow
25reputation
1kreached
4answers
7questions
Github Skills (23)
html6
left-join6
google-chrome6
dplyr6
css6
django6
json6
cakephp6
materialize5
las5
javascript5
pdf4
material-design4
hardware3
siemens2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dubsnipe/clases-innovacion-2021
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:75 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
dubsnipe/disenolibre
Sep 2013 - Feb 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 23 pushes in 7 years 6 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.