German Blanco
Data Scientist
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolGerman Blanco is a seasoned Data Scientist with 13 years of experience applying machine learning, constraint programming and scalable data architectures to real-world problems across telecom, logistics and energy domains. Currently at IBM after steering routing optimization and pricing models at Ontruck, he combines production ML experience (TensorFlow, microservices, AWS) with low-latency online processing expertise developed at Ericsson. He has deep roots in security and smart-card middleware—contributing to the OpenSC project to improve certificate handling and add Spanish DNIe support—bringing a practical understanding of cryptographic integration. German’s background spans hands-on big data engineering (Scala/Spark, Kafka, ELK) and technical product leadership, including delivering an NER/document classification product into production. He holds advanced studies in statistics for data science and telecommunications engineering, and is based in the Greater Madrid area. Colleagues describe him as a problem-solver who chooses projects where technical rigor measurably improves outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Master in Information Health Engineering, Data Processing and Data Processing Technology/Technician, Master in Information Health Engineering, Data Processing and Data Processing Technology/Technician at Charles III University of MadridEngineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (8)
c1710
smartcard10
security10
opensc10
pkcs10
c1110
driver9
tokend7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSC/OpenSC
May 2013 - Feb 2016
Open source smart card tools and middleware. PKCS#11/MiniDriver/Tokend
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:14 commits, 17 PRs, 59 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:German primarily focused on improving the logging of certificate handling within the OpenSC library. They also added support for DNIe (Spanish electronic ID card) functionality, implying work with smart card technologies and security protocols. Their contributions involved code changes in both `src/libopensc` and `src/libopensc/cwa-dnie.c`, demonstrating a focus on the project's core security and smart card features.
pkcs11golangsmartcardsecuritytokend
germanblanco/OpenSC
May 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:46 pushes, 47 branches in 9 months
golangsecuritytokendminidrivermiddleware
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