Gabriel J. Pérez Irizarry

IBM, Poughkeepsie NY

Technical Engineer

Summer 2013

Worked on the zSeries System Test department. My main responsability was to setup, test and document a brand new mainframe infrastructure that allows for secure off-site backup in non-Z/OS systems. Other taks included developing a GUI tool for automatically fetching logs and dumps from mainframes and developing a script to check for a type of error that wasn't being monitored before. [View IBM Poughkeepsie Page]

Track All Inc, Caguas PR

Mobile Software Developer and Systems Administrator

Summer 2011

Developed an Android application capable of reporting potholes on the road, acts of vandalism (e.g. graffiti), illegal trash dumping and other problems that affect cities worldwide. People are able to install this application, take a picture of the item, add notes and other information. Then they can upload the data and view a map with all the items. This product is called Kilomenter 7. [View Track All Page][View Kilometer 7 Page]

Google Summer of Code - Sunlight Foundation

GSoC Student

Summer 2010

Worked with the Sunlight Foundation on the 50 States Project as a GSoC student. Google Summer of Code is a program in which Google sponsors students to work full-time on Free and Open Source projects during the summer. The 50 States Project wants to make data available from all of the U.S. states legislatures through a single easy to use API. I worked on the development of several scrapers for some states including Hawaii, Colorado and Oregon. [View GSoC Page] [View the Sunlight Foundation Page]

Georgia Institute of Technology, NSF

Graduate Research Assistant

2013

Working on supporting the thesis work of Ph.D student Casey Fiesler. The mission is to better understand people's attitudes towards copyright in online communities and how they differ by the type of community. My work consits of scraping the data set to be used for the research. For this I've written software to automate the scraping of web forums and scrapers for many popular online communities. [View Project Page]

University of Puerto Rico, NSF, CenSSIS

Library Developer

2011

The University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (UPRM) is developing a high performance, documented, and cross-platform GPU library for hyper-spectral image processing. This library takes advantage of GPUs and the CUDA framework by NVIDIA to drastically improve execution times of some hyper-spectral image processing algorithms. A key challenge in the development of the library is portability. I worked on the development of the build infrastructure and testing infrastructure. Additionally, I was involved on the creation of its coding guidelines. Conference Paper: Gabriel J. Pérez-Irizarry, Francisco De-La-Cruz, Miguel Velez-Reyes, Nayda Santiago-Santiago, "Developing a portable GPU library for hyperspectral image processing", appeared on the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing conference, Baltimore, March 2012. [View Project Page]

University of Puerto Rico, NSF and PR-LSAMP

Game Developer

2010

Worked on the development of a serious 3D game-based learning platform in Java using JMonkeyEngine. The project aims to develop a factory simulation game that will help teach Industrial Engineering concepts. My main responsabilities where the integration of the TWL toolkit library, the implementation of the game grid, the refactoring of some third-party dependency and the design of some components. [View Project Page]

University of Puerto Rico, Lockheed Martin, IAP and PR-LSAMP

Library Developer

2009

Collaborated on improving a set of contributed libraries of the VXL project so that they can be promoted to the core layer of the project. VXL is an open source computer vision library. My work focused on promoting the VPGL module to core via automatic coding standard compliance checks with KWStyle. Additionally, I was involved in the manual coding guideline verification process. I participated in poster sessions and oral presentations for this project. The work was coordinated by Professor Miguel Figueroa-Villanueva. [View Project Page]

GEM Fellowship Recipient

2013

The National GEM consortium promotes the participation of underrepresented groups in post-graduate science and engineering education. GEM Fellows get full tuition waivers and a stipend to cover living costs while persuing graduate degrees. Only around a hundred students are selected from all nation wide applicants. [View 2013 Fellows List]

Free Culture @ UPRM

Founder and President

2007-Spring 2012

Students for Free Culture (SFC) is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. SFC chapters exist at over 40 colleges and universities around the world. SFC has collaborated with Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Downhill Battle, and other free software and media reform groups. I co-founded our local chapter and I have help lead dozens of initiatives at our University including: Ubuntu Install Fests, Open Source Game Nights, Free CD Giveaways and a Petition for Free/Open Books. One of our most recent projects, colegiodemocrati.co, was featured in one of Puerto Rico's most popular newspapers, Primera Hora.[View freeculture.org] [View our local chapter's website]