David Rio

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Curriculum Vitae

Please, check my about page for a more entertaining and readable version of this page.

Education

1995-2003

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, La Salle School of Engineering, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain.

Final Project: Building a mp3 player from scratch.

Employment

June 2018 - current

Software Engineer (Consultant)

August 2015 - April 2018

Software Engineer, Librato, San Francisco, CA (Remote).

Contributing member to build and release AppOptics (Application and infrastructure monitoring SAAS).
Maintainer and developer for the SDK, the piece of software in charge of abstracting the data backend details and to rendering data visualizations.
Developed and shipped hundreds of features for the Librato product (frontend, backend, and the SDK).
Built and maintained the Python bindings for the Librato API.

August 2007 - April 2016

Scientific Software Engineer, Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX (4 years remote).

Developed and maintained the genomic data processing pipelines for 40+ dna sequencers.
Lead a team of 4 software engineers.
Acted as a liaison between the scientists, software engineers and system administrators o ensure that the software processes developed by the team meet the scientific goals with the optimal use of the infrastructure.
Performed an in-depth study of different aligner algorithms and selected the most optimal aligning algorithm for the pipelines. Performed bug fixing and features enhances for bfast (an open source aligner).

August 2005 - April 2007

Software Engineer, Digitaria, San Diego, CA.

Built front-end and back-end logic for Internet solutions based on Ruby on Rails, catalyst (perl) on UNIX environment. Administered and configured 6 racks of hardware: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows.

August 2004–July 2005

Software Engineer, Eracks systems, Laguna Beach, CA.

Built a pipeline to automate installations of BSD and Linux operating systems. Tuned BSD and Linux systems over different i386 hardware to fit customer needs.

Open source contributions

Cubism: Time series analysis with D3.
Connect: HTTP server framework for node.
ReadFQ: High performance Fasta/q file reader.
Sga: NGS assembler.
l2met: Streaming of metrics in Go.
go-librato: Librato bindings in Go.
Dnaa: Toolbox for dna sequencing data analysis.
Bfast: NGS sequencing aligner.

Technical Abilities

Administering and developing in Linux environments.
Full stack development with ruby frameworks (Rails/Sinatra).
Low level programming languages: C and C++.
Scientific programming with Python (with Pandas, Scifi)
Other languages: Golang, Lua, MatLab (Octave), R.
Data visualization libraries: D3.
Development of distributed systems in Amazon AWS.
Distributed source control: Git.
Modern FrontEnd development (Javascript, React, Webpack, Graphql).

Online courses

Learning how to learn. Coursera.
Machine learning. Coursera.
Software Engineering of SAAS. Coursera.
Bioinformatics Algorithms Certificate.
Javascript Design Patterns. Udacity.

Selected publications

(See full list of publications in Google Scholars.)

BMC Bioinformatics, 2015: Exploring genomic datasets on the web with Horizon Charts. Pdf here.

Community involvement

2013-2016

Software Carpentry, Instructor, Developer, Sysadmin. Software Carpentry is a volunteer organization whose members teach basic software skills to researchers in science, engineering, and medicine.

2006-2014

OpenCSW, Maintainer (Binary packages for Solaris).