About me.

I am a Computer Engineer, I was born in Banyoles which is a nice town between Barcelona and the Pirenees

I made my studies at F.I.B. (Barcelona) and since then I've been working as an Engineer, first in the Grid and Clusters group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and as a Data Engineer more recently in London, at Last.fm. Currently I am working as a Freelance.

Bits and pieces of me around the web:

  • As all the cool kids, I use twitter,
  • and I code for fun and profit, I have some projects at github and some at bitbucket.
  • then, my musical taste is superior than yours
  • and I keep some interesting bookmarks at diigo,
  • and occasionally I present stuff, then I usually upload the slides at slideshare.
  • Interested in my professional work ? check it at linkedin.

Specialities and interests:

  • Java and Groovy
  • Big Data & Hadoop
  • Distributed and parallel systems
  • Erlang
  • Linked Data
  • Open Government

You can contact me via:

  • e-mail: marc.de.palol at googlemail
  • jabber: same.
  • irc: mdepalol at freenode.