Professional Services by Francesc Alted

Professional Services by Francesc Alted

I am an independent consultant and developer with more than 25 years of experience wrestling with Big Data in many different ways, as well as leveraging compression techniques for accelerating I/O. With customer needs in mind I can apply my experience to help determining the best options for handling and analyzing big datasets in the most efficient way.

I am the author of the fast Blosc compressor that has become the basis for some well known libraries like HDF5 and Zarr. Also, I have created projects like PyTables and Caterva for storing and handling extremely large amounts of data.

What I offer:

  • Development services on existing or new packages in the Blosc ecosystem (including PyTables and bcolz).

  • Development services for custom software that is for doing optimal I/O (either using Blosc/PyTables/bcolz or not).

  • Consulting services on better leveraging the Blosc ecosystem in your own setups. Services like implementing new functionality, providing efficient binaries or optimizing parameters for large streams of chunks are typical.

  • On-site training services about many aspects of Data Containers for Big Data and also Python. Look here for an example of my favourite topics. I also did quite a bit of tutorials for conferences, like the one for PyData Barcelona 2017 or Advanced Scientific Programming in Python in Reading, UK (2016).

For fees or any other inquiries, please send me a message at francesc@blosc.org.