David HORAT

CERN, Geneva - Switzerland

I was raised in Gran Canaria, a Spanish island near the African coast. There, I studied a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at the ULPGC. Encouraged by my colleagues and friends, I decided to go abroad. I spent 6 months with an Erasmus scholarship in the German University FH NordAkademie, where I developed an eLearning platform based on Moodle and other tools. I later worked on my Master Thesis which focused on accessibility and usability on web applications. I graduated with distinction.  I am currently working as a Software Engineer in the European Organization for Nuclear Research -CERN- specialized in grid and web technologies. I have also worked at Ericsson in its R&D labs as a specialist on communication protocols. Among other things, I have participated as a Moodle mentor in the Google Summer of Code program.