Alberto González Palomo
I am software consultant since 2011, based in Saarbrücken, Germany, and I have worked with customers from Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, Ireland, United States of America, and Singapore.
My specialty is dropping in the middle of a running project and getting things done. I build computer programs that still run years later.
Some times my customers need that to meet a deadline after the work turned out to be more difficult than expected; in other cases they just want an additional component that was not included initially in the project.
In the portfolio page you can see some examples of work I have done for them.
I am interested in challenging requests open to creative solutions.
Featured: Nigerian Gas Flare Tracker
I made this web application that, from satellite measurements, identifies gas flares in Nigeria, and estimates the energy wasted, value of gas burnt, missing fees (penalties for gas flaring are seldom enforced), potential for electricity generation, and CO₂ emissions.
It was developed as part of the oil spill mapping project managed by the British NGO Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN), funded mainly by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) through the Facility for Oil Sector Transparency in Nigeria (FOSTER) program.
From the 5th annual report of the FOSTER program:
Major achievements under this output through-out the life of the programme include the innovative platforms created by Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN) and hosted within Nigeria’s environmental regulator (NOSDRA), that track and monitor oil spills and gas flaring with the aim of improving the responsiveness of the Nigerian government to these issues.