José González
Senior Research Scientist at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJosé González is a senior research scientist and seasoned full-stack bioinformatics engineer with 26 years of experience designing scalable web services, relational and NoSQL databases, and high-performance data mining pipelines. Based in Barcelona, he combines deep domain expertise in sequence analysis, structural prediction and functional genomics with hands-on database administration (PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase) and modern stores like MongoDB and Elasticsearch. At the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute he has led integration and curation efforts for large biological datasets and built production-grade web services and portals. An active contributor to the eXist native XML database, he has improved remote resource handling and memory efficiency for large XML and binary transfers—an example of his focus on practical fixes that scale. His background blends advanced computer science training with decades of applied bioinformatics, making him adept at turning complex biological problems into robust, performant software solutions.
26 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Candidate, Diploma of Advanced Studies, Computer Science, PhD Candidate, Diploma of Advanced Studies, Computer Science at Universidad Autónoma de MadridEngineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at Universidad de Málaga
Spanish, English
Github Skills (13)
xquery10
xml10
javas10
databases10
application-server10
xml-rpc-client10
back-end-development10
xmlrpc10
java10
database10
xslt9
xml-database9
xpath8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
eXist-db/exist
Mar 2009 - Jun 2012
eXist Native XML Database and Application Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:José primarily contributed to the eXist Native XML Database and Application Platform by refactoring code related to remote resources and XML-RPC interactions to handle large binary resources, XML files, and XQuery results more efficiently, particularly when fetching data from remote servers. They addressed memory issues by introducing an AbstractRemoteResource and rewriting methods for RemoteXMLResource to leverage its functionality. The user also addressed bugs related to serialization options not being honored through the XMLRPC interface. Further contributions include fixes on ant tasks, SOAP server, and Ant eXist store tasks with improved mime type identification and enhanced functionality, such as storing more than one fileset.
nosqlxml-databasexmlxprocxquery
inab/EPICO-data-loading-scripts
Jul 2014 - Nov 2019
Contributions:170 commits, 71 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
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