Jose Segura
Software Analyst Developer at GeoCat bv
Greater Valencia Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJose Segura is a seasoned software analyst/developer with 14 years focused on open-source geospatial technologies, GIS and web mapping, currently contributing at GeoCat from the Greater Valencia area. He brings deep hands-on experience implementing INSPIRE Spatial Data Infrastructures and custom GeoNetwork/GeoServer solutions for European agencies and international clients, blending backend Java work with UI enhancements and publishing workflows. His open-source contributions include meaningful improvements to flagship projects GeoNetwork and GeoServer—adding multilingual API support, SLD package handling, map thumbnail optimisation and accessibility-focused metadata workflows. Comfortable across full-stack geospatial stacks (PostGIS, MapServer, GeoServer, OGC standards) he uniquely pairs traditional GIS engineering with modern web mapping and automation. A trained engineer with further study in biomathematics and bioinformatics, he often applies analytical rigor to data ingest, harvester and integration challenges. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, standards-driven solutions that bridge complex institutional requirements with usable web interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer (5 years), Informatics, Engineer (5 years), Informatics at Universidad Politécnica de ValenciaUOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (18)
api-rest10
javascript10
catalog10
api-design10
restful-api10
geoserver10
metadata10
java10
javas10
angularjs10
rest-api10
xslt9
webmap9
api9
mappings9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
geonetwork/core-geonetwork
Jun 2012 - Jan 2023
GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources. It provides powerful metadata editing and search functions as well as an interactive web map viewer. It is currently used in numerous Spatial Data Infrastructure initiatives across the world.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 1438 reviews, 733 commits in 10 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jose primarily focused on improving the user interface and enhancing the functionality of the GeoNetwork catalog application. They addressed bugs and implemented new features within the web UI, including fixing the DOI publication task, optimizing map thumbnail generation, and updating various UI components. They also contributed to backend code, implementing multilingual text support for API exceptions and making modifications to the data management aspects of the application.
web-mapspatialmetadatadcatgis
geoserver/geoserver
Sep 2014 - Mar 2021
Official GeoServer repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 comments in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jose's commits center on extending the SLD (Styled Layer Descriptor) package functionality within the GeoServer project. They modified the code to incorporate a SLD package extension, allowing the upload and handling of zipped SLD files containing the SLD style and related resources. This involved refactoring existing code and moving the SLD package implementation to the `restconfig` module and integrating it into the `StyleResource` class. Furthermore, the user added unit tests and documentation to support the new functionality.
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