Javier De La Rosa
Head Of Language Models at Nasjonalbiblioteket | The National Library of Norway
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolJavier De La Rosa is Head of Language Models at the National Library of Norway, bringing 16 years of experience building applied NLP and computer vision solutions for heritage and public-facing systems. He combines academic rigor—a PhD in humanities—with hands-on engineering, having led research and production efforts at institutions including Stanford, Western University, and UNED. Javier specializes in large language models for historical and literary texts, translating scholarship into scalable services and productionized ML features for library platforms. He is an active open-source contributor with front-end work on the Mirador image viewer and back-end improvements to PyFunctional that added parallel execution engines for large data pipelines. Comfortable straddling research, engineering, and product, he has a track record of turning complex digital humanities problems into usable tools for broad audiences. Based in Oslo, he pairs deep domain knowledge in cultural heritage with practical system-building experience.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Humanities/Humanistic Studies, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Western University
English, French
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
lib10
data-pipelines10
python10
annotations10
python-multiprocessing10
mirador10
iiif10
parallel-processing10
multi-process10
multiprocessing10
functional-programming10
data-pipeline10
annotate10
data-science9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ProjectMirador/mirador
Nov 2016 - May 2017
An open-source, web-based 'multi-up' viewer that supports zoom-pan-rotate functionality, ability to display/compare simple images, and images with annotations.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 8 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Javier primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of the Mirador viewer. Their work included fixing bugs related to annotation display, search functionality, and image manipulation, as well as implementing improvements like the ability to navigate to specific annotations within the canvas. The user's commits also involved adding new features, such as the search-within functionality, and refactoring components to improve the user experience. They also addressed issues related to the display and use of tags in the annotation editor.
openseadragonrotateannotationsiiifjavascript
EntilZha/PyFunctional
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Python library for creating data pipelines with chain functional programming
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 32 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:Javier significantly contributed to the `pyfunctional` library by implementing parallel execution strategies for core functional programming transformations. Their work included adding features for parallelizing map, filter, and other transformations using Python's multiprocessing capabilities. They refactored the code to introduce execution engines and added the ability to specify the number of processes used for parallel execution. These changes enhance the library's performance when dealing with large datasets.
python-librarypythondatapipelinefunctional-programming
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