Israel Herraiz is a Strategic Cloud Engineer at Google. He has worked in different data science roles at BBVA Data & Analytics and Amadeus. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (2008) and has been a visiting researcher at universities in Europe, Canada and the United States. In a prior life, he was an assistant professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, where he carried out research applying data science to the study of software development and the phenomenon of open-source software.