Jorge Portilla
Director Del Centro De Electrónica Industrial Y Sistemas Multimodales at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJorge Portilla is an experienced academic and engineering leader based in Madrid, currently directing the Centro de Electrónica Industrial y Sistemas Multimodales at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid with over 11 years in higher education and research leadership. He holds a PhD in Electronic Engineering and blends deep research in wireless sensor networks, IoT, edge computing, reconfigurable FPGA systems, and post-quantum cryptography with practical software contributions. Jorge contributes to open-source projects such as GoldenCheetah, improving cycling and running metrics and signal-processing calculations for power meter and pedal data, showing his knack for turning domain expertise into usable tools. As an educator and center director he bridges fundamental research and applied systems, guiding multidisciplinary teams toward deployable solutions. Colleagues value his combination of rigorous academic training and hands-on problem solving across hardware, firmware, and back-end software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Master of Science (MSc), Physics at Universidad Complutense de MadridDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electronic Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
performance-monitor10
cprogramming-language10
metric10
cycle10
qt9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Performance Software for Cyclists, Runners, Triathletes and Coaches
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 23 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jorge primarily focused on improving the codebase related to cycling and running metrics. Their contributions include modifying code to correctly calculate left/right balance, taking into account different scenarios for cycling and running data from power meters. They also addressed issues in the Torque Effectiveness and Pedal Smoothness computations related to data from Favero Assioma DUO pedals. Furthermore, the user made minor adjustments in the Spanish translation.
sciencewindowscyclistspower-meterlinux
jgpallero/packages
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
The GNU Octave package index.
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 days
indexgnuoctavegnu-octavepackage-index
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