Jesus Castagnetto
Remote Consultant at PEAR
Peru
Summary
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Top SchoolJesus Castagnetto is a multidisciplinary remote consultant and developer with 25 years of experience bridging bioinformatics, computational chemistry and web services. He combines PhD-level expertise in chemistry and postdoctoral training in bioinformatics with hands-on engineering—contributing backend code to well-known open-source projects like OpenRefine and the php.net site. Skilled in data engineering, R, cloud deployments and RESTful architectures, he has led university IT transformations, implemented campus-wide LMS/cloud infrastructure, and advised national digital government initiatives. Known for building a metalloprotein database and pragmatic “data munger” tooling, he thrives on turning messy scientific data into reproducible, production-ready services.
25 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemistry at New York UniversityPostDoctoral Research Associate, Bioinformatics, PostDoctoral Research Associate, Bioinformatics at The Scripps Research InstituteB.Sc., Chemistry, B.Sc., Chemistry at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
boolean-logic10
xslt10
email-validation10
java10
javas10
php10
web-development10
data-cleaning9
data-wrangling9
html9
data-analysis8
data-science8
reverse6
ggplot6
vroom6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
php/web-php
Sep 2000 - Jul 2002
The www.php.net site
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Jesus primarily contributed to the PHP-based website's functionality. Their work included adding features like a "Reject" option to the notes admin section, which involved email validation using a third-party class and later a simplified approach. The user also updated documentation by adding links to PalmPilot versions of the manual and fixing minor typos. In addition, they integrated an XSLT transformation for project listings.
phpphp7
OpenRefine/OpenRefine
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jesus primarily focused on implementing and integrating boolean logic functions within the OpenRefine project. Their contributions involved creating an XOR function, registering it within the control function registry, and addressing related code issues. Additionally, they contributed to fixing errors, addressing merge conflicts, and resolving conflicts, demonstrating an active role in the codebase.
pythonopenrefinemessy-datareconciliationdatacleaning
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