I'm a computer scientist. I use Python lately, but I have long experience with Java and C++. 🐍☕

I currently live between the Basque Country (Spain) and Bavaria (Germany). 🌍🇪🇸🇩🇪

I like to design, build and automate things using:

• machine learning,
• distributed systems,
• data warehouses,
• containers,
• micro-services, and
• serverless.

I also enjoy developing modern backend APIs, chat bots, CI/CD pipelines, and use infrastructure as code for the public cloud providers. 🤖

I am currently helping a limited number of teams and organizations as an external consultant. At the same time I'm learning Rust 🦀 and building business ideas.

If you would like to have my help with your team and product, feel free to contact me. 🤓

I hold a PhD in machine learning applied to brain image processing and disease detection.

During my research I have been using Matlab and Python, scikit-learn, and the Nipy tools to pre-process brain images for feature extraction and disease detection from magnetic resonance (MRI) and positron-emission tomography (PET) images. 🇪🇸🇬🇧🇵🇱🇩🇪

Then I left academia...

Since 2017 I have been involved in a wide variety of projects in small teams in different companies:

• Ansible to provision remote clusters with Kafka and the ElasticSearch stack,
• maintenance of a shared Java library for logging events through Kafka for the automotive industry,
• C++ to automate a Universal Robot to use as a ground truth for motion sensors,
• Python and Falcon to create an IoT end-user facing API for users, devices, and firmwares running on AWS,
• Serverless Framework, Terraform and later AWS CDK to create AWS Step Functions to ingest data into Redshift and S3 for a data warehouse, and
• Golang and OpenAPI to implement integration tests for an end-user facing API,
• Python on Airflow to maintain a datalake in Elasticsearch with Points-Of-Interest data for a car navigation system,
• Real-time asynchronous system in Python to send alerts to Slack (and other places) based on a statistical model running against big-data on Rockset for a fintech company.

I also have participated in the European Python community since 2014. I am a PSF Fellow and a EuroPython Fellow, I also have:

• co-founded ACPySS to support the local Python community,
• been part of the EuroPython Society board from 2015 to 2018,
• been core organizer of the PySS conferences, EuroPython 2015 and 2016, and EuroScipy 2019,
• helped in the organization of other conferences: EuroScipy, PyMunich, and PyConDE, and
• spoken in scientific conferences and also a few Python conferences like PySS, PyData/PyCon Italy, PyConDE, and EuroPython.

A bit of my original open source work:

• A useful tool that I created to generate badges for conferences which ended up being popular among some friends: docstamp and tito-docstamp.
• hansel a tool to help with my research and other open source tools. 🚀

You can find me on:

• Twitter as @alex_savio
• GitHub as @alexsavio (you are here)
• LinkedIn
• My barely maintained blog
• My old research profile page