Pablo Langa
Founder & Managing Partner at EDT Partners
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolPablo Langa is a founder and managing partner who blends deep technical training (MSc in Computer Science) with strategic business development to scale EdTech ventures internationally. With 11+ years of experience, he has driven market expansion for global firms like Blackboard and the Financial Times | IE Corporate Learning Alliance while founding impact-driven platforms such as ZeroAcoso.org and Exams for Zoom. He specializes in go-to-market strategy, channel sales and product-market fit for education technology, and has operated across six continents using both direct and partner-led models. Pablo also contributes as a back-end developer to open-source analytics work, improving Apache Spark’s SQL and Web UI behaviors—an uncommon hands-on technical detail for an executive. As an educator and innovation officer he bridges academia and industry to turn research-backed identity and assessment technologies into scalable products. Colleagues describe him as a practical strategist who pairs consulting rigor with entrepreneurial grit to deliver socially impactful learning solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)Executive Education Leadership, Executive Education Leadership at London Business SchoolPMP Project Management, PMP Project Management at MSc Computer Science & Marketing - Project ManagementSpecialization Computer Information Systems (CIS), Specialization Computer Information Systems (CIS) at Idaho State UniversityUniversitat Politècnica de València
English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian
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Github Skills (9)
webui10
javas10
spark10
sql10
java10
scala10
big-data9
json8
jdbc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/spark
Jan 2019 - Apr 2024
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 38 PRs, 210 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pablo's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Spark Web UI and SQL functionality. They implemented tooltip improvements within the JDBC/ODBC Server tab, improving the understandability of the user interface. The user also worked on multi-catalog resolution for SHOW COLUMNS, SHOW TBLPROPERTIES, SHOW TABLE EXTENDED, SHOW FUNCTIONS, DESCRIBE FUNCTION, DROP FUNCTION, and CREATE FUNCTION commands, aligning their behavior with v2 catalog framework. Furthermore, they addressed a bug related to collect_set() with BinaryType and improved the error message for unsupported key types in the from_json and JSON reader implementations.
analyticspythondata-processingsqlapache
planga82/sparkFork
Apr 2019 - Apr 2024
Apache Spark
Contributions:214 pushes, 45 branches in 5 years
spark-mlapachebig-datasparkscala
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