Sergi Pons Freixes

Curriculum Vitae

Experience

2023–Present

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Qualcomm, California.

2021–2023

Staff Software Engineer, Qualcomm, California.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with engineering teams and executive stakeholders to conceptualize, design, and implement web-based applications
  • Mentor and tutor more junior developers, providing guidance and support to help them grow and improve their skills
  • Ensure that applications are developed in line with the company's standards and guidelines
2018–2021

Engineering Manager, Eastridge Workforce Solutions, California.

Responsibilities:

  • Ensure the Eastridge Cloud scalability, stability and availability
  • Be responsible for optimizing the Eastridge Cloud performance
  • Determine the best practices for code quality
  • Design and build modular applications and APIs
  • Improve efficiency and clear roadblocks for software engineers to improve their performance
  • Create, delegate, coordinate, and prioritize development tasks
  • Meet with internal and external clients to understand their needs and business objectives
2018–2021

Lead Engineer, Eastridge Workforce Solutions, California.

Same duties as Software Engineer, with the added responsibilities:

  • First responder to engineering requests, bugs and alerts
  • Creation, delegation, prioritization and coordination of engineering tasks
  • Responsible for code quality
  • Deployment of code to QA and production systems
2015–2016

Software Engineer, Eastridge Workforce Solutions, California.

Responsible for designing and building modular applications and RESTful APIs using:

  • Python web frameworks (Pyramid)
  • SQL object-relational mappers (SQLAlchemy)
  • Version control systems (Git with Gitflow)
  • Collaborating with front-end engineers
2013–2014

Performance Simulation Engineer, Rhea Group—European Space Agency, Netherlands.

Expert on the System Performance Simulator and the Ground Processor Prototype for the Sentinel 3 satellite.

  • Responsible for the simulators and processors
  • Planning, execution and evaluation of data generation and processing tasks
  • Development of helper tools and software useful for related activities
2011–2013

Spanish Trainee, European Space Agency, Italy.

Propose, implement and evaluate data processing methodologies to assess the viability of remote sensing coral monitoring.

2007–2011

Assistant Researcher, Marine Technology Unit—Spanish National Research Council, Spain.

  • Design and development of hardware and software for embedded systems and hyperspectral sensors
  • Design and development of software for workstations
  • Simulation of hyperspectral scenarios
  • Supervision of Master Thesis’
2004–2006

Assistant Researcher, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain.

Development of hardware and software for workstations, embedded systems and hyperspectral sensors.

Education

2015

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Marine Technology Unit—Spanish National Research Council.

Thesis: Do-it-yourself instruments and data processing methods for developing marine citizen observatories.

Supervisors: Jaume Piera, Luigi Ceccaroni.

2006

Master degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

2004

Telecommunications Engineer, Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

Languages

Catalan
Native proficiency
Spanish
Native proficiency
English
Full professional proficiency
Italian
Limited professional proficiency