About

Genoveva Galarza Heredero is a Staff Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation who has over 13 years of experience in the field of software engineering. She is a passionate entrepreneur, a compulsive traveler, and a vocational programmer. Her interest in AI and Computational Linguistics led her to work at Infosys Labs in Hyderabad, India for four years, where she developed context-aware bots and studied NLP solutions. She applied this knowledge to smart search, relationship extraction, discourse resolution, and human-computer interaction for speech-based agents. Genoveva's interest in the rise of Collaborative Consumption and its positive effect on developing nations led her to co-found her first start-up, RideIT, a ridesharing service for companies. This start-up has won multiple Indian and international social entrepreneurship awards. She loves to code with the good guys and is always looking for new and exciting projects to work on. Genoveva has worked for several companies in the past, including iuvia, where she was a Co-Founder and Developer. IUVIA is a platform to escape from the corporate consumer cloud and is a EU funded project, part of the NGI European initiative. She has also worked as a Software Engineer at openshine. Genoveva's education background includes a degree in Ingeniería Informática Superior from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a Proyecto Fin de Carrera in Word Sense Disambiguation from Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires. She also attended Colegio Ursulinas. Genoveva's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, AI, NLP, and Search. She is a highly skilled and experienced professional who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow in her field.