José Lacal
Chief Technology Officer And Founder at Data Santander, SL
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Lacal is a veteran technology leader and founder with 11+ years in senior engineering and product roles, currently building DataSDR’s Metadata Repository platform for Life Sciences to centralize standards, terminologies and audit-ready governance. He combines deep hands-on expertise in data engineering, medical device security, and regulatory informatics with a pragmatic, product-first approach that emphasizes extensibility, Excel-like usability, and item-level impact analysis. José has launched multiple SaaS products for pharma and CROs—including synthetic health data generators and open data repositories—and his platform is already deployed at a large pharma company. Known as a "Data Artiste," he translates open data into actionable knowledge and favors fast, flexible engineering teams that work directly with clients to shorten cycles and increase value.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Economics, Bachelor Economics at Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de MéxicoBachelor of Science Economics, Bachelor of Science Economics at Florida International UniversityMaster's in Science Public Health - NOT completed yet., Master's in Science Public Health - NOT completed yet. at University of Miami
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
data-repository7
open-data6
unreal6
geospatial5
ecosystem2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nihpo/SynthHealthData
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:46 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
phuse-org/PODR
May 2020 - Sep 2022
PHUSE Open Data Repository
Contributions:47 commits, 44 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
open-datadatadata-repository
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