User:Angoca

Andrés Gómez Casanova was born in Bogotá, Colombia. Its childhood was in Bogotá studying in the Champagnat School - Colegio Champagnat (elementary, secondary and high school), a school of Marist Brothers, for 12 years (transition, and one to eleventh grade). After that, he went to military service at the National Police of Colombia. Once he finished the military service he started studying at the Colombia School of Engineering - Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito (ECI). During that time, he went to USA for six months at South Bend, Indiana to learn English. At the ECI, he was teacher assistant of object-oriented programming (1 time) and databases (5 times).

He finished his studies, and the got the title of systems engineer on September 2005. He started to work at IT Consultings, an IBM partner at the time, when he discovered many tools of that company. Among them was Websphere/Rational and Db2.

Time after he immersed in the world of Db2 and he became certified and worked for different clients in Bogota. Later, he went to La Rochelle, France to learn French and one year later he started his first master degree at Joseph Fourier University at Grenoble. He got the diploma of Génie Informatique or Informatics engineer at 2008. Then, he started his working life in France, when he worked for the CC-IN2P3, France Telecom-Orange, SNCF, Bureau Veritas and Everial, working mainly as a Db2 DBA in Lyon or Nantes. During that time, he got the French citizen.

Years later, he got back to Colombia and worked for the Bogota Bank. Once he was back in Bogotá, he started his second master degree at the Andes University, and in October 2018 he got its MBA-Master of Business Administration. Along its professional career, Andres has been recognized as an IBM Champion for Analytics for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Andres is convinced of the open knowledge (open source software, open documents) and he has created several open source projects like db2unit and log4db2, and also he participates actively in OpenStreetMap as a mapper organizing mapping parties in MaptimeBogota and taking free photos for Mapillary.

Some of the hobbies of Andres are flying drones, domino toppling, visiting the Unesco sites, and attending rock concerts.