Juan Cruz Viotti

Hey there! I'm an accomplished computer scientist and engineering leader with more than 12 years of experience mostly across early stage startups, and mid-size companies across industries that include APIs, Data, and Internet of Things. Right now I'm CTO at my own startup and do plenty of consultancy on my areas of expertise (high-performance software, data management, and JSON Schema).

FOR NON-TECHNICAL FOUNDERS: Are you looking to launch a startup but lack the necessary technical skills in your team? I can play a CTO role in our meetings, give you tons of advice and architecture help to get you going, and we can keep talking over time! We can create entire plans together and I can even help you hire developers and/or outsourcing agencies to do the work.

Some facts about me:

- I'm the co-author of the O'Reilly book "Unifying Business, Data, and Code: Designing Data Products with JSON Schema", which proposes that data quality is the main bottleneck for effective AI and teaches a practical methodology to think about and fix the data quality problem

- At the University of Oxford, I won the 2022 CAR Hoare prize for the best dissertation and accompanying papers in the area of Software Engineering for my research around JSON BinPack (https://jsonbinpack.sourcemeta.com) JSON BinPack made a breakthrough on 40 years of space-efficient telecommunication and binary serialisation technologies, being more space-efficient than 13 other popular technologies in every single tested case (https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12799) I'm continuing to develop this technology for reducing satellite data transfer costs on Robotics, IoT, and Automotive

- I'm a member of the Technical Steering Committee of JSON Schema (https://json-schema.org) the world most popular schema language, which powers virtually every API specification such as OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, RAML, and others. I'm the key provider of commercial JSON Schema tooling at Sourcemeta (https://www.sourcemeta.com) and I also maintain the popular Learn JSON Schema website (https://www.learnjsonschema.com/2020-12/) I'm developing the world's fastest JSON Schema validator, providing nano-second validation for developing low-latency APIs

- I'm also a prolific open-source maintainer. I've been involved with projects like Node.js (as an architect behind their Single Executable Applications initiative), I created the popular Etcher IoT image flashing cross-platform desktop application (within the top 700 public repositories on GitHub), and now lead my own open-source foundation (https://www.sourcemeta.com)