José Alonso
Expert Advisor at CTIC Technology Centre
Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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Top SchoolJosé Alonso is an experienced strategist and advisor with 25+ years at the intersection of the open web, data and digital rights, having led programs and served as Interim CEO and Director at the World Wide Web Foundation and as a lead at W3C. He now advises the European Commission, CTIC and international partners on semantic interoperability, data spaces and governance, combining policy fluency with hands-on technical roots as a trained software engineer. José has successfully built multi-stakeholder coalitions and fundraising strategies across 20+ countries, notably convening the Contract #ForTheWeb and shaping open data practice in governments and NGOs. His background spans early-stage entrepreneurship (founding a web startup in 1997) to influencing global governance through expert groups at the UN, WEF, OGP and the European Commission. Colleagues value his ability to translate technical standards into pragmatic organisational policy and to spot strategic opportunities at the nexus of technology and society. Based in Oviedo, he remains an active connector across European semantic interoperability and open web communities.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Universidad de OviedoUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (200)
threejs10
cryptocurrency10
hyper10
svg10
visual-studio10
3d10
json10
child-process10
fetch10
erc2010
nodejs10
react-dom10
augmented-reality10
css10
user-interface10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
elevenyellow/coinfy
Jul 2017 - Feb 2022
Free and open source online wallet for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, ERC20 tokens and more.
Contributions:7 releases, 650 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 8 months
tokensethereumblockchainwalleterc20
DistributedObjectProtocol/web
Jan 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 143 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 6 months
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