Omar Verduga
Durango, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolOmar Verduga is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade-plus of professional experience blending game programming, server-side systems, data analysis, and AI, and a unique academic background that includes a PhD in Experimental Psychology and advanced studies in AI and machine learning. He currently builds cloud-native data integration and traceability platforms using Node, Django, AWS, PostgreSQL and containerized workflows, while also shipping cross-platform apps that tie into ASP.NET backends. Omar has a strong history in interactive and game development (C++, C#, Unity, cocos2d-x) and has led localization efforts for the widely used p5.js web editor and Processing Foundation projects to expand Spanish-speaking accessibility. Comfortable moving between research, product and engineering, he leverages behavioral-science insight to improve data-driven features and experimental platforms. Based in Durango, Mexico, he brings a rare combination of rigorous academic research, practical systems engineering, and open-source impact.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at IIMAS , UNAMBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Facultad de Ciencias, UNAMDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Psychology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Experimental Psychology at Queen Mary University of LondonMachine Learning, Machine Learning at MIT Professional Education
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
i18next10
localization10
translation10
react10
javascript9
front-end-development8
webpacker7
webpack7
nodejs5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js-web-editor
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
The p5.js Editor is a website for creating p5.js sketches, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, beginners, and anyone else! You can create, share, or remix p5.js sketches without needing to download or configure anything.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:19 reviews, 24 commits, 21 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Omar primarily focused on internationalization and localization efforts within the p5.js Web Editor. Their work involved implementing translations, adding new language support (specifically Spanish), and integrating language selection functionality. The commits demonstrate the modification of various UI components and modal windows to incorporate translated text, as well as changes to the application's build process and server configuration to support the serving of localized resources. This included changes to webpack configs and server files for locales.
p5js
oruburos/ABMPsyRTS
Oct 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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