Hi! I'm Pol Valls Rué

Software Developer. Data Scientist. Artificial Intelligence Engineer.

Experience

Now

December 2019 - Now

Software Engineer

coatingAI

Barcelona, Spain

Bringing artificial intelligence to the coating industry.

Responsibilities

Involved in all flavors of software development, from supporting core product development with computer vision and machine learning engineers, to steering devops and automation operations, quality assurance processes and full stack development.

2022

December 2019 - June 2022

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Plyzer Technologies

Barcelona, Spain

Artificial Intelligence Team (AI Team).

Responsibilities

Research, engineering and development of AI solutions for Plyzer.
Development and maintenance of the core backend systems of the Business Intelligence tools.

2019

December 2018 - May 2019

Software Engineer - QA Internship

Scytl Secure Electronic Voting SA

Barcelona, Spain

Quality Assurance team (QA).

Responsibilities

Release management, testing of scalability, maintainability, usability, device compatibility, performance and security.
Building and delivering QA documentation.
Bug reporting and tracking.

Technologies

Source code control:Python, Java, HTML, PHP, Javascript with Git.
Workflows: with Jira, TestRail, Skype Business, etc.
Others: Unix Bash shell, Open-stack, Ansible, Docker, Linux servers, PostMan. Interacative Voice Response systems (IVR).

2018

March 2018 - September 2018

Software Developer Internship

CUATRECASAS GONCALVES PEREIRA SLP

Barcelona, Spain

"Innovation & Applications Consulting" department internship.

Responsibilities

Support with programming and testing in different development projects. Project management methodology.

Technologies

Web development: HTML 5, CSS3, Javascript, Typescript, React, Bootstrap. I build the "Fundació CUATRECASAS" website.
HotDocs. Word documents automation. Deployment of software such as "LexNet Tools".
Other: .NET, PHP, MySQL. TFS servers.

2017

May 2017 - December 2017

Head Of Technology

Techie Products & Systems

Girona, Spain

Technology consultant for a newly created company.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the logo, domain, DNS, corporative mail, website, social networks, media coverage and general tech assessment.

Technologies

Web development.
Adobe CC. Logo, media coverage and marketing.
Google GSuite, GoDaddy domain.

Techie at the BCN PISCINA & WELLNESS Fair.

2016

Education

Now

June 2015 - July 2019

Audiovisual Telecommunication Systems Engineering Degree (Computer Sciences)

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) , Barcelona, Spain

GPA7.75 / 10

Specialization

Pattern Recognittion. (AI, machine learning, statistics)
Image Analysis and Interpretation.
Synthetic Image. (Computer Graphics, ray-tracing)
Advanced Visualisation. (Graphics, shaders, OpenGL)
Virtual Communication Environments. (Development of Full stack web applications)
Perceptual Principles Applied to Design.

Courses

Fundamentals of Computer Sciences. Computational Logic, Databases, Object-Oriented Programming.
Fundamental of Mathemathics and Physics. Calculus & Numeric Methods, Linear Algebra and Discrete Mathematics, Waves and Electromagnetism, Differential Equations, Statistics & Stochastic Processes
Fundamental on telecommunications. Networks and Service protocols. Data Transmission and Encoding.
Sound and Image Processing courses.Sound and Music Processing, Voice & Audio Encoding Systems, Image and Video Encoding Systems, Video Processing.

2015

September 2013 - June 2015

International Baccalaureate Diploma (+ spanish baccalaureate)

INS Jaume Vicens Vives , Girona, Spain

GPA8 / 10

Specialization

2nd highest level baccalaureate class in Catalonia. Sciences specialization with high level mathematics, physics, chemistry as well as philosophy and catalan language.

Courses

IB Diploma subjects.
Spanish Baccalaureate subjects. (LOE).

We also had some time to travel to Bamberg, Germany.

2013

Skills

Languages

Spanish:

Catalan:

English:

French:

General purpose imperative programming

Python:

Java:

C++:

Full Stack development and DBMS

HTML5, CSS:

JavaScript & Typescript:

Node.js, React.js, Three.js. Bootstrap, Gatsby:

REST APIs. Django. MySQL/PostgreSQL. mongoDB. graphDB:

General computing, CI/CD

Bash, Zsh. General Shell scripting (CLI):

Git & version control:

Conda, Tmux, Cron, rsync, ... :

Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions:

Cloud computing, cloud architecture

AWS: EC2, Lambda, S3, Aurora RDS, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, ...:

Google Cloud.:

Heroku.:

Microsoft Azure.:

Computing and science

MATLAB/OCTAVE:

Markdown, LaTeX:

PureData:

Operative Systems and platforms

macOS:

Windows 10:

Linux:

Raspberry and development boards:

Software suits

Visual Studio Code:

PyCharm, Xcode, Jupyter Notebooks:

Adobe CC: Photoshop, LightRoom:

Apple's FinalCut:

Workflows, project management

Agile/Scrum methodologies:

Test Driven Development (TDD), PyTest, TestRail, ...:

Version Control GUIs: VSCode, GitHub, GitLab, Sourcetree, ...:

Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, PowerPoint:

Google: Docs, Sheets, Slides, ...:

iWork: Numbers, Pages, Keynote.:

Honors / Awards

HACKLAB 2019 Entrepreneurship Awards: UPF In Time

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019

Second highest award at the Premis Hacklab ceremony organized by the UPF, for the project UPF In Time, a schedules native app connected to the UPF schedule service system. (FrontEnd: React Native. Backend: Python; Scrapy, Flask, MongoDB, Heroku). Award certification.