Juanjo Hierro
Chairman - FIWARE Technical Steering Committee
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJuanjo Hierro is a seasoned technology leader and open source advocate who has spent over three decades shaping IoT, smart cities, and platform architectures, currently chairing the FIWARE Technical Steering Committee. He combines hands-on technical vision—as former CTO and chief architect of the FIWARE platform—with ecosystem-building experience, co-founding the Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative to drive interoperable urban services. Known for translating standards and open source collaboration into practical roadmaps, he has coordinated cross-industry liaisons with bodies like ETSI and TMForum and driven FIWARE workstreams in Digital Twins, AI/ML and DLT integration. Based in Madrid, he balances strategic leadership with grassroots community development, having helped startups scale through accelerator programmes and long-term open source sustainability efforts. An unexpected detail: beyond tech evangelism he channels creativity from jazz, cinema and art into his collaborative, people-first approach to building developer communities.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Computer Science - ETS Ingenieros de Informática (UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)EGB, BUP, COU, EGB, BUP, COU at Colegio Claret, Madrid
English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
fiware10
tla10
robotics10
interoperability10
security10
data-models10
schema10
data-stream9
reproducible-research9
iot9
eclipse8
collaboration8
fiware-orion8
architecture8
json-ld7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JuanjoHierro/data-space-connector
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
FIWARE Data Space Connector following DSBA TC recommendations
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
JuanjoHierro/wot-ngsi-ld
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
work area for the liaison between WoT and ETSI ISG CIM on NGSI-LD
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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