resume
pdf versionI'm a tinkerer, a data-oriented
programmer with a bias towards functional programming. I'm
a fan of clean code and correctness, as well as
minimalism. I enjoy modern (but not bloated)
technologies and I like playing with new things.
Professional experience
- period
- May 2025 - present
- company
- Digitl Cloud
- position
- Data Engineer
- period
- August 2023 - April 2025
- company
- Dayrize
- position
- Senior Data Engineer
- description
- Dayrize provides a SaaS built around an AI-powered streaming pipeline for sustainability impact assement of consumer products. As well as related analytics, product modelling and traceability to help retailers reduce their carbon footprint.
- stack
-
- Google Cloud
- Apache Beam
- Pub/Sub
- BigQuery
- Looker
- Dataform
- Spanner
- Cloud Run
- period
- January 2021 - August 2023
- company
- Trakken
- position
- Data Engineer
- description
- At TRKKN I implemented data warehouse and ELT setups for customers, as well as architecting their cloud data infrastructures and serverless applications.
- stack
-
- Google Cloud
- Apache Airflow
- Dataflow/Apache Beam
- BigQuery
- Firestore
- Pub/Sub
- Terraform
- period
- June 2019 - October 2020
- company
- Lead Ratings
- position
- Data Engineer
- description
- Lead Ratings provides SaaS that uses predictive ML algorithms to identify conversion probabilities.
- stack
-
- Django
- Amazon web services
- Docker and Docker Swarm
- Redis
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Numpy and Pandas
- period
- July 2018 - June 2020
- company
- Sellbytell Group
- position
- GCP Support Engineer (Big Data and ML specialist)
- description
- At Sellbytel, I provided technical support for the Big Data and ML products of Google Cloud.
- stack
-
- Google Cloud Platform
- BigQuery
- Google Dataflow / Apache Beam
- Google Composer / Apache Airflow
- Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Python
- period
- November 2013 - April 2018
- institution
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona)
- group
- Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
- position
- PhD Student
- description
- At IRB I performed bioinformatics research center on Nucleosome Positioning. I also developed and implemented statistical analisis methods. As well as developing and maintaining a few R packages.
- stack
-
- R
- C
- Python
- Bioconductor
- Sun Grid Engine
- MongoDB
Certifications
- certification
- Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Architect
- issue date
- 14 Dec 2022
- expiration date
- 14 Dec 2024
- series id
- 68917
- certification id
- 6vkQ5o
Education
- period
- 2012 - 2013
- degree
- MSc in Bioinformatics
- institution
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- period
- 2008 - 2012
- degree
- BSc in Biochemistry
- institution
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- period
- 2013 - 2018
- degree
- PhD in Biomedicine (unfinished)
- institution
- Universitat de Barcelona
Research
Published software
- name
- NucleosomeDynamics
- language
- R and C
- function
- Suite for nucleosome positioning analysis using MNase-seq
- forms
Congresses attended
- period
- 2016
- name
- 15th European Conference on Computational Biology
- location
- World Forum Convention Center (The Hague, Nederlands)
- poster presented
- NucleosomeDynamics: a web portal to analyze and visualize MNase-seq data
- period
- 2016
- name
- XIII Symposium in Bioinformatics
- location
- Universidad politécnica de Valencia (Valencia, Spain)
- talk given
- NucleosomeDynamics: a web portal to analyze and visualize MNase-seq data
Workshops given
- period
- 2017
- name
- Multi-scale study of 3D Chromatin Structure
- location
- European Bioinformatics Institute (Cambridge, UK)
- topic I covered
- MNase-seq data analysis using the MuG research environment
- period
- 2017
- name
- Multi-scale genomics
- location
- Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Barcelona)
- topic I covered
- MNase-seq data analysis using the MuG research environment
- period
- 2016
- name
- 3DAROC 2016
- location
- Instituto Gulbenikan de la ciéncia (Lisboa, Portugal)
- topic I covered
- MNase-seq data analysis using the NucleosomeDynamics portal
Internships
- period
- 2011-2013
- descr.
-
- Master’s internship
- Colaboration scolarship
- Degree’s internship
- group
- Protein folding and conformational diseases
- institution
- Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (Barcelona)
- period
- 2012
- descr.
- Internship
- group
- Peptide synthesis and protein structure
- institution
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona)
- period
- 2011
- descr.
- Exchange Student
- department
- Biophysics and radiadion biology
- institution
- Semmelweis University (Budapest)
Publications
- Buitrago D, Codó L, Illa R, et al. Nucleosome Dynamics: a new tool for the dynamic analysis of nucleosome positioning. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019;47(18):9511-9523. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz759
- Dans PD, Danilāne L, Ivani I, et al. Long-timescale dynamics of the Drew-Dickerson dodecamer. Nucleic Acids Res. 2016;44(9):4052-4066. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw264
- Zambrano R, Conchillo-Sole O, Iglesias V, et al. PrionW: a server to identify proteins containing glutamine/asparagine rich prion-like domains and their amyloid cores. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015;43(W1):W331-W337. doi:10.1093/nar/gkv490
- Navarro S, Diaz-Caballero M, Illa R, Ventura S. Aggregation propensity of neuronal receptors: potential implications in neurodegenerative disorders. Future Sci OA. 2015;1(2):FSO39. Published 2015 Sep 1. doi:10.4155/fso.15.39
- Fraga H, Graña-Montes R, Illa R, Covaleda G, Ventura S. Association between foldability and aggregation propensity in small disulfide-rich proteins. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2014;21(3):368-383. doi:10.1089/ars.2013.5543