Lucía De Espona Pernas
Senior Researcher at University of Alicante
A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolLucía De Espona Pernas is a PhD-trained computer scientist and senior researcher with 13 years of experience building data-driven systems for academia and industry across Spain and Switzerland. She blends hands-on engineering (Java, Scala, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CKAN) with applied research—most recently leading AI techniques to operationalize ecological indicators for sustainable tourism in protected areas. Her background ranges from bioinformatics and proteomics pipelines at ETH Zurich to open data portals and ERP/analytics prototypes for SMEs, showing a rare mix of scientific rigor and production-grade delivery. Lucía has a strong track record in data engineering, visualization and search systems, and has repeatedly translated research into practical tools like SQL learning games, versioning/indexing services and CKAN-based portals. Based in A Coruña, she combines academic publication experience with technical leadership roles, and often focuses on making complex data accessible for decision-making in environmental and energy domains.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Computer Science, Engineer Computer Science at Universidade da CoruñaInstituto de Secundaria Xose Neira VilasPhD. Computer Vision (Medical image analysis), PhD. Computer Vision (Medical image analysis) at Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
English, Spanish, Galician, French, German
Github Skills (51)
mongoose10
dbpedia10
catalog10
ckan-extension10
dms10
metadata10
hierarchy10
open-data10
ckan10
publish10
api10
iso10
credit10
open-datasets10
itil9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pier4all/mongoose-versioned
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Document versioning library for MongoDB using the mongoose package.
Contributions:27 commits, 21 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 5 months
data-versioningmongoversioningnodejsmongoose
EnviDat/ckanext-envidat_theme
May 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:228 commits, 2 PRs, 200 pushes in 5 years 6 months
appearanceckancustomizewsl
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