Carlos Sanchez

Current

Director at Exist Global
Committer and Project Lead at The Eclipse Foundation
Committer at Codehaus Foundation

PMC Member at The Apache Software Foundation
Committer at The Apache Software Foundation
Committer at Spring Security (formerly Acegi)

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Past

Software Engineer at DevZuz
Software Engineer at Mergere
Founder at CSSC

Committer at Celtix
Independent Consultant at ArcMind
Consultant at Softgal

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Education

Universidad de A Coruna

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Carlos Sanchez’s Summary

Improving development process, creation of structured builds, management of components and their interactions, setup of quality control procedures and practices, for faster delivery of reliable software through the development lifecycle.

Interacting with global and highly distributed intercultural teams in different continents, mentoring and enabling people for increased productivity.

Applying open source solutions to the enterprise, component and community oriented development and global team management.

Development of web applications using latest technologies and reusing open source libraries and components for standardization and faster time to market.

Member of open source communities, contributing and leading projects in several open source projects at the Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation.

Coauthor of Better Builds With Maven [http://www.mergere.com/m2book_download.jsp] (Mergere, 2006), the first book about Maven 2.

Talks:

* Enterprise Build and Test in the Cloud
* Eclipse IAM, Maven integration for Eclipse
ApacheCON EU 2009, March 23rd-27th 2009, Amsterdam

* Q4E and Eclipse IAM, Maven integration for Eclipse
ApacheCON US 2008, November 3rd-7th 2008, New Orleans

* 5 reasons why Maven sux
JavaOne 2008 CommunityOne, May 5th 2008, San Francisco

* Maven, Eclipse and OSGi working together
* Q4E, Maven integration for Eclipse
EclipseCON 2008, March 17th-20th 2008, Santa Clara, California

* Introducing Developers to Maven2 and Continuum
LA Jug, December 6th 2005, Los Angeles

* Non intrusive security with Acegi Security System for Spring.
II JavaHispano Congress (JavaHispano 2004), 15-16 December 2004, Madrid.

Carlos Sanchez’s Specialties:

Open Source in the Enterprise, Architecting and Best Practises, Agile methodologies, Offshore and Worldwide Distributed development, Team building, cloud computing, SaaS

Maven, NMaven, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Junit, Cargo, Selenium, AspectJ, Acegi, Struts, Ajax, DWR, Dojo, Scriptaculous, YUI
Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, MySQL, Postgres

Carlos Sanchez’s Experience

Director

Exist Global

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Joined Exist through DevZuz acquisition

Combining cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS solutions with open source for improved performance and scalability and reduced costs

Enabling Open Source Software Adoption in the Enterprise, and applying Open Source solutions, as component and community oriented development and global team management

Improving development process, creation of structured builds, management of components and their interactions, setup of quality control procedures and practices, for faster delivery of reliable software through the development lifecycle.
Committer and Project Lead

The Eclipse Foundation

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

Project co-lead in the Eclipse Integration for Apache Maven (IAM) project
Committer in the Buckminster project
Project lead in the Kepler project
Committer

Codehaus Foundation

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
PMC Member

The Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

PMC Member of the Apache Maven project

Developed core parts of the project as plugins for different tasks: build, QA, distribution, deployment, continuous integration, artifact repository management,...
Committer

The Apache Software Foundation

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

Committer in the Apache Maven project.
Contributor to other projects: Felix, ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, Commons,...
Committer

Spring Security (formerly Acegi)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Software Engineer

DevZuz

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — December 2007 (8 months)

Enabling Open Source Software Adoption in the Enterprise, and applying Open Source solutions, as component and community oriented development and global team management

Improving development process, creation of structured builds, management of components and their interactions, setup of quality control procedures and practices, for faster delivery of reliable software through the development lifecycle.

Formerly Mergere, a Simula Labs company
Software Engineer

Mergere

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Mergere, a Simula Labs company

Consulting services around build best practises and automation of processes, using open source tools based on Apache Maven (project comprehension), Continuum (continuous integration), and Archiva (artifact repository management)
Founder

CSSC

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Providing consulting services worldwide, both remotely and on site, on Java Enterprise applications, specially backend and performance tuning, clustering and replication.
Improving development processes and applying best practices for Agile development, setting up development environment with automated build tools, continuous integration and artifact repository management.
Committer

Celtix

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — November 2006 (11 months)

Committer at the Celtix project
Independent Consultant

ArcMind

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — October 2005 (7 months)

Consulting for J2EE, JSF, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, Maven.
Consultant

Softgal

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2004 — April 2005 (7 months)

Introducing Open Source solutions in the company, advising on legal and technical matters.
Telecomunications web application for major cable company: management of off-site team and refactoring using open source solutions.
Portal development with Vignette Application Portal and Liferay.

Carlos Sanchez’s Education

Universidad de A Coruna

Engineer / Master's degree , Computer Software , 1998 — 2004

Project: "ONess, using innovative open source technologies in a business case". Qualified with Honors.

Publication: Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems (655-664).
Ernesto Pimentel, Nieves R. Brisaboa, Jaime Gómez (Eds.): VIII Jornadas Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos (JISBD 2003), 12-14 November 2003, Alicante. 2003, ISBN 84-688-3836-5

Activities and Societies:

Contestant in ICPC (International Collegiate Programming Contest) - École Polytechnique, Paris – ACM (Asociation of Computer Machinery)

Investigation grant on the departament of I.T. and Comunications: Internet services, security and network administration