Panoramio’s Team

Joaquín Cuenca Abela, co-founder

I started playing with computers at 8 (1984) at 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 a 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 in two companies in Paris, Celium in 2000-02 and 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 work full time on Panoramio from 2006.

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Eduardo Manchón Aguilar, co-founder

Psychologist specialized in Human Computer Interaction, I have been working at the Usability field the last 7 years. I have a MS in Psychology from the University of Valencia and studied 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 on 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 on October 3th.

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Jose Florido Conde

26 year old web designer from Málaga specialized 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 Spanish language with 1.800 members. Nowadays I finish my Business Administration studies at University of Málaga.

I met Eduardo and Joaquín when I was working at Loquo.com. Since then we are in touch, so when they proposed me to join Panoramio's team at the end of the 2006 summer, I quickly accepted.

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Gyuri Dorko

I am a Software Engineer specialized 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 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, 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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