Santiago Vidal
Chief Technology Officer at Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolSantiago Vidal is a technology leader and researcher with nine years of professional experience, currently serving as CTO at TradeSpark while teaching software development and algorithmic trading at UNICEN. He holds a PhD and a Master's in Computer Science and combines academic rigor with practical system maintenance, refactoring, and software evolution expertise. His technical fluency spans Java, PHP, Smalltalk, Objective-C, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and a long-standing interest in legacy-system rejuvenation. As a former CONICET research fellow, he blends empirical research methods with hands-on engineering to improve software maintainability and lifecycle practices. Colleagues value his ability to translate research insights into cleaner, more adaptable production code and curricula. Based in Tandil, Argentina, he is known for mentoring students and teams on agile methodologies while shipping pragmatic improvements to complex systems.
9 years of coding experience
Master Software Engineer, Master Software Engineer at Univerdidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos AiresDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Facultad de ciencias exactas, Universidad Nacional del CentroSystem Engineer Computer Science, System Engineer Computer Science at Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Spanish, English
Github Skills (40)
jena9
sparql9
roller9
apache-jena9
rdf9
apache8
quartz-scheduler8
jgroups8
java8
analyzer7
xml7
legend6
nightly6
quartz6
scheduler6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hcvazquez/JSpIRIT
Aug 2018 - Oct 2020
A flexible tool for the analysis of code smells
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
analysissmellscode-analysisanalyzercode-smells
santiago-a-vidal/UFFOptimizer
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
removerunusedjavascriptidentifierforeign
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