Josep De Cid Rodríguez is a software engineer with a decade of experience blending full-stack development and AI research, currently at DataArt after roles as Full Stack Engineer and CTO. He holds a strong academic background in computer science and a master's in Artificial Intelligence from UPC, and has taught and researched at the university and supercomputing center level. Josep has led engineering and AI integration for a rural tourism marketplace as CTO, demonstrating product-minded architecture and team leadership. As an open-source ML engineer he contributed substantive refactors to the widely used pytorch-grad-cam project, modernizing compatibility and reliability for vision explainability tools. Comfortable shipping both backend systems and neural-network code, he also enjoys game development as a creative outlet—aiming to make things more fun than an Atari Expansion Pak. Based in Catalonia, he combines research-grade ML skills with practical production experience across startups and research institutions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Innopolis University
Advanced AI Explainability for computer vision. Support for CNNs, Vision Transformers, Classification, Object detection, Segmentation, Image similarity and more.
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
Contributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 2 branches in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Josep's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Grad-CAM implementation for computer vision tasks. They updated the code to be compatible with newer versions of PyTorch, removed deprecated features, and migrated custom autograd functions to meet new static requirements. The user also addressed code style issues and made adjustments to the package's setup for clarity and consistency, solidifying the functionality of the package.
Contributions:99 commits, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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Josep De Cid Rodríguez - Software Engineer at DataArt