Pablo Cerdán
Chief Executive Officer at Vasomaly
Torre Pacheco, Spain
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Top SchoolPablo Cerdán is a software leader and CEO with 11 years of experience at the intersection of biophysics, medical imaging, and AI, currently driving Vasomaly’s efforts in vascular anomaly detection. He combines a PhD-level research background with hands-on C++ and Python engineering—contributing to flagship open-source projects like ITK and CTK—bringing production-grade image filtering, frequency-domain tools, and Python bindings to the community. Pablo has a track record of turning academic research into deployable tools across startups, hospitals, and grant-funded projects, including reproducibility efforts using IPFS and DOI automation. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he bridges deep scientific understanding and software craftsmanship to accelerate diagnostic imaging while championing open science.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Posgrado, Biofísica, Posgrado, Biofísica at Universidad Autónoma de MadridDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biophysics at Massey UniversityBiophysics, Biophysics at The MacDiarmid InstituteLicenciatura, Física, Licenciatura, Física at Universidad de Murcia
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (23)
image-analysis10
c-language10
qt10
itk10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
python9
image-filters9
c-templates9
cpp-templates9
vtk9
cmake8
open-source8
3d7
slicer7
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK
Jun 2015 - Jan 2022
Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dimensions.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 reviews, 118 commits, 105 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pablo primarily contributed to the itkFlatStructuringElement class, implementing a constructor from images and adding data to tests. They also fixed test errors and warnings in the itkFlatStructuringElement. Further contributions included fixing a warning related to delete [] in the FFTW module and adding the SetReferenceImage functionality to the GenerateImageSource class. The user also added frequency iterators and a band pass filter to the image filtering module.
pythonitkcomputer-visionopen-sciencescientific
commontk/CTK
May 2018 - Apr 2021
A set of common support code for medical imaging, surgical navigation, and related purposes.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 14 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Pablo contributed to bug fixes, including resolving missing include statements and addressing compiler warnings related to incomplete types. They updated the minimum required Qt version and implemented fixes to a Python wrapper generator used in the project. The user also fixed a catch-by-value warning in a DICOM application widget and resolved an issue where 'pow' was undeclared in a visualization widget.
pythonmitk3d-slicerosgic-plus-plus
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