Summary
Gonzalo Villarreal is a systems-focused computer scientist and educator with 14+ years of experience building and maintaining research and teaching infrastructure while leading practical programming courses at Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (Simulation and Modeling) and blends academic research with hands-on system administration across cloud platforms (AWS, Linode, OVH), virtualization (Proxmox), and containerization (Docker). A strong OpenAccess and OpenSource advocate, he maintains production services like Nextcloud, BigBlueButton, Zimbra, Moodle, OJS, Matrix and Mastodon, ensuring reliability for scholarly communication. Technically fluent across Symfony, JS/Angular, XHTML/CSS, R/Pandas, RDBMS and NoSQL, he connects back-end infrastructure with data management and teaching needs. Beyond routine ops, he has coordinated development of scholarly portals and analytics software (Celsius), reflecting a rare mix of service engineering and bibliometric insight. Based in La Plata, Argentina, he combines classroom mentorship with platform stewardship to support research visibility and reproducible computing.
13 years of coding experience
PhD in Computer Science, Simulation and Modeling, Simulation Teaching, Doctor, PhD in Computer Science, Simulation and Modeling, Simulation Teaching, Doctor at Universidad Nacional de La Plata