He has been serving as head of the Spanish delegation to ISO C++ standards committee since 2008. Before joining academia he worked as a software engineer in industrial projects in different domains including real time control systems, civil engineering, medical imaging, aerospace engineering, and high performance scientific computing. He has lead the REPARA project funded by the European Commission and aiming refactoring C++ applications for parallel heterogeneous architectures. He also participates in the RePhrase European project related to better software engineering practices for parallel C++ applications. His main research goal is to make software developer lives easier by balancing software maintainability and application performance. In summary easier to read, faster to run, and less resources consumed.