Speaker Details

Gustavo Durand works at Harvard University's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, as the Technical Lead and architect of the Dataverse application, an open source web application for publishing, citing, analyzing, and preserving data. He began his Java programming career at Cambridge Technology Partners in 1997 and has more than 20 total years experience as a software developer and consultant. He has worked as a developer, technical team lead, architect, and manager, and has focused on all layers of web application development, from front end HTML and Javascript to back end APIs, EJBs and database code. Gustavo graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from Boston University.