Daniel Pastrana

Daniel Pastrana has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries. Daniel is currently working as a Back End Developer at mattilda. since May 2023. Previously, from November 2022 to April 2023, they worked as a Back End Engineer at Analitica Technology. Before that, they worked as a Blockchain | Data Analyst from August 2020 to September 2022, where they generated daily technical analysis, developed SQL queries and python scripts, and used data analytics for trading and decision-making.

Prior to their work in the tech industry, Daniel worked as a Predoctoral Researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center from September 2016 to February 2020. In this role, they studied fluid-structure interaction problems for flow control and energy harvesting and conducted high-fidelity numerical simulations.

Daniel also gained research experience as a Researcher Assistant at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where they designed and implemented empirical and numerical models to study tropical cyclones, performed statistical analysis of TC database, and wrote technical documentation from 2015 to 2016. Additionally, they collaborated on a scientific paper where they implemented wave velocity measurements data for wave structure interaction problems at the same institution in 2014.

Daniel started their research journey at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 2011, where they worked as an Assistant Teacher in 2012 and as a Research Assistant from 2011 to 2012. In these roles, they developed and optimized code to simulate fluid dynamics and heat transfer problems, studied heat transfer between solid and fluid, and wrote technical documentation.

Overall, Daniel Pastrana's work experience reflects their expertise in back-end development, data analysis, research, and technical documentation.

Daniel Pastrana completed their education in a sequential manner. Daniel first pursued a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 2003 to 2008. Following this, they obtained a Master's degree in Coastal Engineering from the same university between 2012 and 2015. Subsequently, they pursued a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computational and Applied Physics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya from 2016 to 2020.

In addition to their formal education, Daniel Pastrana has obtained several certifications. These include completing the Ultimate Rust Crash Course from Udemy in May 2023, the Agile with Atlassian Jira course from Coursera in November 2022, the Foundations for Big Data Analysis with SQL (with Honors) course from Coursera in October 2020, the Machine Learning Fundamentals course from edX in June 2020, the Probability Theory, Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis course from Coursera in June 2020, the Deep Learning Specialization from DeepLearning.AI in May 2020, the Data Science: R Basics course from edX in April 2020, the Data-driven Astronomy course from Coursera in April 2020, and the Object-Oriented Data Structures in C++ course from Coursera in October 2019.

Furthermore, Daniel Pastrana has also obtained certifications in Data Analysis Using Python (institution and dates are not provided) and is a certified Open Water Diver by PADI (institution and dates are not provided).