Francisco Soria
Partner Senior Manager Lead Data Scientist
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolFrancisco Soria is a data science leader with 12 years of experience driving data-driven decisions and building big data teams across Spain, currently serving as Partner Senior Manager and Lead Data Scientist at LUCA. He has a track record of turning complex analytics into production-ready solutions, having held senior roles at Canalones Rodríguez, Pragsis Bidoop and StratioBD. Technically hands-on, he contributes to open-source Scala tooling—improving circe's Decoder to provide richer validation and error accumulation, and adding checks for extraneous JSON fields. Based in Madrid, he combines domain experience in telecom and enterprise analytics with a pragmatic engineering approach to deployment and model validation. Colleagues describe him as a leader who balances strategic vision with code-level contributions that improve reliability and developer experience.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Turismo de ovejas, 8.9 (hasta la fecha), Grado en Turismo de ovejas, 8.9 (hasta la fecha) at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
Spanish, Spanish, Spanish, extremeño, andaluz, palenciano
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Github Skills (16)
json10
javascript10
decode10
decoder10
scala10
java9
testing9
python9
algorithm9
apache-spark6
linked-list6
sql6
indexof6
tuples6
multithreading6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
circe/circe
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Yet another JSON library for Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Francisco focused on enhancing the `Decoder` trait within the `circe` JSON library. Their contributions included overloads for the `validate` method, allowing for more flexible error generation and validation logic within the decoding process. They also refactored the `validate` method to return all potential errors in the accumulating decoder. Additionally, the user added functionality to check for superfluous fields in the input JSON when using `decodeCaseClass`.
json-libraryyet-anotherscalajsongeneric-derivation
pfcoperez/algorithmaday
Oct 2016 - Sep 2018
Repository containing source code for submissions at DailyAlgorithm Twitter account.
Contributions:192 commits, 25 PRs, 191 pushes in 1 year 11 months
submissionspythonaccounttwitterdata-structures
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