Panoramio’s Team

Joaquín Cuenca Abela, co-founder

I started playing with computers at age 8 (1984) by first copying little BASIC programs and wondering what could possibly mean “ready>” in english... I eventually moved to more complex problems and switched to C much later (1992).

I have a MS in Fundamental Physics from the University of Valencia and MS in Computer Science from both University of Valencia and Paris Sud XI University.

I have been an active member of the GNOME community. I ported Abiword (a cross platform word processor) to the GNOME framework and I maintained Glade 3 among other things.

I worked for two companies in Paris, Celium in 2000-02 and in Wizart 2002-05 working mainly with C on Windows, some assembler and a little bit of Java.

In summer 2005 I started to work on Panoramio in my free time together with Eduardo Manchón. I have been working full time on Panoramio from 2006.

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Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, co-founder

As a psychologist with a speciality in Human Computer Interaction, I have been working in the field of Usability for the last 7 years. I have a MS in Psychology from the University of Valencia and studied for a couple of years at the University of Bergen (Norway).

Since 2001 I have written more than 120 articles about usability, user research methodology, strategy, etc. in Ainda.info (my personal site) and Alzado.org (co-founder).

For three years I worked in online banking in lacaixa.es in Barcelona designing user interfaces for web browsers, cell phones and ATMs. From 2004 to 2006 I have been an independent consultant in the field of usability.

When in July 2005 my old friend Joaquín Cuenca told me his idea about geopositioning photos in Google Maps I loved it, so we quickly founded Panoramio and launched it on October 3rd.

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Jose Florido Conde

I am a 26 year old web designer from Málaga with a speciality in web standards and accessibility. I am in charge of most of the HTML/CSS from Panoramio and graphic design.

For four years I worked in design and development of web applications at Ávidos, a small company I co-founded. I frequently teach courses about web standards and accessibility in Madrid and Málaga.

I'm founder and administrator of Ovillo.org, a community about web standards in the Spanish language with 1,800 members. Nowadays I finish my Business Administration studies at the University of Málaga.

I met Eduardo and Joaquín when I was working at Loquo.com. We stayed in touch, so when they proposed me that I join Panoramio's team at the end of the summer 2006, I quickly accepted.

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Gyuri Dorko

I am a Software Engineer with a speciality in Computer Vision and I have joined to the Panoramio team in early 2008. I work on both the front-and back-end services for Panoramio.

I have several years of experience in research with a special interest in computer vision related topics, such as object recognition and local image description. I have worked on successful European projects, first as a research assistant during my PhD in INRIA, Grenoble, and as a PostDoc scientists in the Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

I have completed my post-graduate studies in INP-Grenoble, France, earned a Master degree from the University of Erlangen, Germany, and finished my Bachelors in Budapest Polytechnic, Hungary.

Prior to joining the team of Panoramio I have authored/co-authored several book chapters, and peer reviewed international journal and conference papers.

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Erik Carlsson

Software Engineer, MSc in computer science from KTH in Stockholm.

I joined Google in early 2006, and started working on Panoramio shortly after the acquisition in 2007. I generally try to stay in the backend servers.

I started coding on the Atari ST and Amiga platforms, originally with my sights set on the gaming industry. I've also dabbled in 3D rendering, but people keep telling me I'm more of a programmer.

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Fernando Delgado

I am a Product Manager at Google. I joined the Panoramio team in May 2008, where I work on prioritizing features for the site, managing and getting resources for the team, internal and external communications, and managing our relationship with developers using our API. I split my time between Panoramio and the teams that power search in Google Maps.

Before working on Geo products, I was in the Mountain View, CA office (Google's headquarters), where I worked on improving the quality of our search engine, specifically in Latin American markets. I also collaborated on getting knol localized to Spanish and Portuguese, and helped organize Search Masters 2008, a conference for Webmasters in Mexico and Brazil.

I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Michigan.

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Pablo Delgado Aqueveque

I am a Software Engineer. Recently obtained a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCL in London. In the UCL in London I did Machine Learning topics such as Collaborative Filtering and Recommender System.

Also studied Mechanical Engineer at UNC in Argentina. I have a passion for Computer Graphics, attended SIGGRAPH from 1994 to 2004 as a student. I started working in Panoramio from mid-August 2008.

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Ignacio Blanco

Ignacio is an Argentinean Software Engineer, technology passionate, and has been spending his days working around Google products both from the inside working at Google Checkout API including 2007 JavaOne Google Checkout presentation with Patrick Chanezon, and in the outside: working on Google Checkout forums, helping in the creation of BuckDrop the Google Checkout 'tinyUrl' version, OpenSocial trusted tester, worked in the first OpenSocket version, worked in BuyFast first, e-commerce application for both OpenSocial & Facebook that allows users to sell & buy through the Social Network limits. This days he is a Software Engineer in Test working for the Panoramio Project in Switzerland.

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