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The Team

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• Pablo Santos - President

  Pablo is one of the co-founders, together with David. When not designing new features or coding server-based obscurities, you can find him blogging and writing about DVCS.

  He’s an associate professor at the University of Burgos (UBU) and a frequent speaker and blogger. He and David started coding for fun (more than profit) back in ’95. Codice is their dream come true.

  Pablo loves motorcycles, especially Kawasaki, and especially if they were built back in the 90’s.

• David Suarez - CTO

  David is one of the co-founders, together with Pablo. David wears many hats at Codice, but basically everything you see in Plastic sprung from his mind. He likes designing user interfaces, graphical stuff, and bettering the user experience. That doesn’t mean he can’t jump into CLI mode and explain to you how hackers do it!

  David shares management responsibilities with Pablo, ranging from business planning to PR to advertising and marketing guidelines. David is one of the core people here at Codice – his mind is always working on new features for Plastic, especially workflow based!

  When not coding, designing beautiful graphics, or moving to an ever-newer last-gen cell phone, he enjoys driving his roadster!

• Borja Ruiz - Senior Engineer

  Borja is one of our most experienced engineers. He knows the entire system in detail, from the GUI to the most obscure command to the server functionality. He’s the go-to guy when you need info about Plastic, but he’s always very, very busy.

  He loves driving fast, scuba diving, and is probably one of the few engineers on earth who knows everything about merging! He has a patent on it and has written our mergetool himself.

• Daniel Peñalba - Senior Engineer

  A long-term contributer to the project, Daniel was the fourth employee to join Codice, together with Borja. He owns the record in number of check-ins to the Plastic repository. He’s worked on every single area of Plastic, but will probably tell you he doesn’t remember it. :-P

  He’s an expert on GUIs and plugins (Visual Studio, Eclipse, and so on).

  He’s also the guy leading the WebUI development. Dani is a professional guitar player and likes scuba diving, too.

• Ruben de Alba - Senior Engineer

  A hard-core Plastic hacker, Ruben knows everything about the server, the replication system, database backends, importers, and well … EVERYTHING! He is less used to work on the GUI, but does check in there from time to time.

  He leads the core changes for Plastic 4.0 and knows a lot about Git, Mercurial, Subversion, and Perforce. Ask him tough questions and he’ll answer you, piece of cake.

  Ruben is learning to play electric guitar and he loves swimming.

• Jesus González - Software Engineer

  He’s an expert on importers (the import/export business is his domain) and he has also spent quite some time and effort on plugins. He’s a Perforce expert – he developed the importer himself. Jesus has worked on many other areas within the project, too.

  Jesus plays soccer and is also learning to play electric guitar.

• Luis Rodríguez - Software Engineer

  Luis is our Build Master. Since he joined Codice, he has been focused on several areas, doing a great job in documentation and testing. He’s moving quickly to release management duties. If you need to find documents or want to know if something is working, he’s the guy to ask. Thanks to this, he’s got a lot of responsibilities.

  Luis is also an excellent writer and contributes to the blog regularly. As a developer, he has worked on fixing bugs as well as developing new features.

• Manuel Lucio - Software Engineer

  Manu has been in charge of load testing for quite some time, so if you want to know how well Plastic compares to SVN or P4 under a really heavy load, he’s your guy. Manu is a Mac user (pretending to be hardcore, isn’t really :-P). He took lead on several parts of the 4.0 code, including dealing with huge repositories.

  Manu used to play tennis (I’ve even heard he was good at it) but is now more focused on skateboards and zombies.… If there’s ever a zombie apocalypse, he’s your guy.

• Sara Dacuba - CFO

  Sara joined Codice with a mission: turn the company into financially well-managed one. Sara has broad experience with financial matters and worked for different companies in the UK before joining our team. She has a degree in Business Administration and has worked for Ernst & Young as an auditor and for Hewlett-Packard and Accenture, always in Accounting & Finance roles.

  When she is not working, you can find her shopping, hanging out with her family, or hiking in the mountains.

• Violeta Sanchez - Software Engineer

  Violeta is the latest hire of the development team. A young engineer, she is quickly learning the way of the hacker, touching on the server and clients. She already implemented the Postgres support and is getting familiar with the most obscure parts of Plastic.

  In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with friends and outdoor activities.

• Francisco Monteverde - CEO

  Kiko, as we all know him, is in charge of the company’s strategy, growth, profitability, and day-to-day operations.

  He has more than 20 years’ experience, including leadership positions in sales and marketing at Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and HP. He enjoys connecting with and listening to our customers and partners. When a client has a question or concern about our product, he gets involved in finding a solution for them, even in complex matters such as a DVCS! His passion is to serve our customers and partners better than anyone else in the market.

  Kiko is a Telecommunications Engineer for the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and has a management grade in the IESE, Madrid (PDD-1998). Kiko loves diving, playing golf, and traveling to new cultures.