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Alejandro Fontal
Data Science · Machine Learning · Health Data · Scientific Software
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I'm Alejandro, a computational scientist and machine learning engineer from Barcelona working across data science, machine learning, health data, and scientific software, with a background in epidemiology, bioinformatics, and the life sciences.

My work usually revolves around extracting signal from complex health and biological data, building reproducible analytical workflows, and turning research questions into useful tools, models, and data products. That has included machine learning on biomedical signals, observational and population health data, protein engineering, time-series and spatial analysis, and scientific software.

I use this space to share research code, open-source tools, data workflows, visualisation projects, infrastructure experiments, and other things I build at the intersection of science and software. I am always glad to connect around interesting problems, collaborations, and applied projects where rigorous analysis, pragmatic engineering, and good tooling all matter.

What I work on

My interests and past work include:

  • machine learning, statistics, and health data analysis
  • epidemiology, time series, GIS, and spatiotemporal modelling
  • bioinformatics, omics, and computational biology
  • scientific software, data pipelines, and reproducible research
  • APIs, automation, Linux, containers, and lightweight infrastructure
  • digital health, data visualisation, and analytical applications

Over the years I've worked on public-health questions including Kawasaki Disease and infectious-disease dynamics, alongside projects involving the aerobiome, microbial detection, biomedical signals, and other data-intensive biological and health systems.

I am also deeply interested in the more practical engineering side of software: self-hosting, home lab setups, VPS-based deployments, service orchestration, containerised applications, and automation-heavy workflows. I enjoy building systems that are reproducible, maintainable, and useful beyond a single analysis.

Another area I care a lot about is the digital diabetes ecosystem, including CGM data, sensors, Nightscout, open-source diabetes tooling, and the broader intersection of health technology, data access, interoperability, and real-world user needs.

Tech Stack

Python R SQL Pandas Polars Linux Docker Git GitHub Actions FastAPI Quarto

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  1. lif-bacteria-aerosols-ms lif-bacteria-aerosols-ms Public

    LIF and ML for near real-time identification of bacteria in aerosols. Accompanying code and narrative for AMT publication.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  2. aqi-stations-scraper aqi-stations-scraper Public

    Small Python utility used to generate historical Air Quality Index datasets scraping https://aqicn.org

    Python 13

  3. rmd-notebooks-vscode rmd-notebooks-vscode Public

    VS Code extension to handle .rmd and .qmd files with inline notebook-like support.

    TypeScript 12 1

  4. sdcpy sdcpy Public

    Python package for Scale Dependent Correlation (SDC) analysis.

    Python 1 1

  5. jp-idwr-db jp-idwr-db Public

    Self-updating wrangled database of Japanese infectious disease surveillance data from NIID IDWR.

    Python

  6. covid-climate-signatures covid-climate-signatures Public

    Code and analysis for the manuscript "Climatic signatures in the different COVID-19 pandemic waves across both hemispheres""

    Jupyter Notebook 2 1