David García Garzón

- Researcher specialized on the domains of Music Information Retrieval and Audio Software Engineering. My current research is related to Simulated Acoustics.
- Development experience: Desktop, web and server application developer specialized on audio and multimedia. I have strong experience using agile methodologies and open source tools and methods.
- Research topics I recently faced: Chord extraction, real-time convolution, 3D virtual scenario acoustics simulation, visual prototyping of audio applications
- Technologies I recently hacked with: Qt, C++, Python, Django, PHP, SCons, JACK, ALSA, PortAudio, Linux, bash, OpenGL...

David García Garzón’s Specialties:

Free and Open Source Software, Audio and music software, Software development, Software engineering, Software project management, Music Information Retrieval

David García Garzón’s Experience

Researcher

Barcelona Mèdia

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

June 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Co-founder

BMAT

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Music industry)

December 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Professor

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 2002 — Present (6 years 2 months)

Teaching Software Engineering (Requirements gathering, UML, Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Refactoring, Agile Methodologies, C++) and Programming III (Object oriented programming, Java).
Core developer

CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music)

(Music industry)

January 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)

I've take part of the team of core developers of the CLAM framework. CLAM has become a framework of reference in multimedia and audio. It won the 2006 ACM Award to the Best Multimedia Open Source Software and was a featured project for 2007 and 2008 editions of the Google Summer of Code.
Professor

Fundacio UPC

(Higher Education industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years)

Course: Software Engineering Tools and Methodologies on Free Software Platforms within the Free Software Master
Research assistant

Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)

September 2000 — December 2006 (6 years 4 months)
Senior programmer

Cards Engineering Spain, S.L.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

August 2000 — December 2003 (3 years 5 months)

Senior programmer/Analist at Cards Engineering. Developing intranet applications for industrial engineering environments. Deploying the development environment (CVS, Mantis, Automated tests...). Involved PHP, unix shell scripting and dealing multiple UNIX ﬂavors.
Junior Programmer

NexTReT

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1997 — December 1997 (6 months)

Working at client site, EDS Iberia, on the ticketing section: Legacy code maintainance involving AIX, C, DB’s and ticket printer low level programming. Quality control and assurance on a developing system involving Oracle technologies.

David García Garzón’s Education

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

PhD, Information, Communication and Audiovisual Media Technologies, 2007 — 2010 (expected)

Researching on the simulated acoustics area.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Master, Information, Communication and Audiovisual Media Technologies, 2006 — 2007

Thesis: Visual Prototyping for Audio Applications

Activities and Societies:

Linuxeros UPF, GTI, MTG
Universitat Ramon Llull

Engineering, Computer Science, 1997 — 2002

PFC: XML support for an audio framework

Activities and Societies:

Departament d'Acustica, Curs d'Informatica Musical
Universitat Ramon Llull

Technical Engineering, Computer Science, 1993 — 1997

PFC: Bioscena, an evolutionary environment with interaction among individuals

Activities and Societies:

Departament d'Informatica