PhD student · software engineer
// 01 · Intro
I build software that keeps its promises, from service level agreements to the infrastructure that serves language models. My final degree project, SLA monitoring for chains of services, won the ETSII 2025 award for the best final degree project in Software Engineering. Right now I work on LEIA, AI assistants for software engineering training, and on EOSC-ARENA, a Horizon Europe project on agentic AI for research.
Software engineer SLA governance service chains LLM infrastructure AI agents Kubernetes open source
// 02 · Selected work
Selected public work
github.com/Dangalcan
Final degree project · Award
Documentation, specifications and SLA monitoring for chains of services, integrated with Governify. Published at JCIS 2025 and awarded best Software Engineering final degree project at the ETSII.
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The LLM-as-a-service platform of the University of Seville. I am its lead developer and designed its architecture, and I also maintain it and run its deployments.
Git-based declarative configuration for the catalogue of the CERN Tape Archive, built during my CERN openlab summer studentship. A reconciler detects drift between the desired state kept in Git and the live catalogue, and applies the difference.
My entry to the reinforcement learning challenge of the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme. It finished first on the leaderboard with a mean return of 289.28 over 100 fixed seeds, trained with PPO and refined with an evolution strategy.
Cooling control for the LHCb data centre at CERN, built for a CERN challenge where it finished second.
A Node.js module that configures API gateways from SLAs written in SLA4OAS. I implemented its plugin system and developed its plugins.
An extension of Bluejay for SLA metrics on chains of services. I added the lucidchain event type, which audits six issue indicators on Redmine and iTop.
A fork of the LEIA runner that adds a new model provider backed by the ALMA LLM cluster.
A repository of feature models in UVL format, integrated with Zenodo and flamapy and developed by DiversoLab. In my fork I extended its CLI so the tests run on Firefox and Chromium and added an integration with Selenium Hub. That work earned me honors in the course.
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// 03 · Toolbox
From public repos
and current work
Each dependency is a promise someone else has to keep. Prefer what ships with the platform, and host the rest yourself.
A claim like twice as fast needs the experiment behind it. Without one, describe what the system does instead of the improvement.
Including (especially) future me, three months from now, who has forgotten everything and just wants to ship one fix.
Tiny green CIs beat large red ones. A merged hundred-line PR is worth ten thousand-line drafts in a stale branch.
// 04 · Who
$ whoami
$ whoami
daniel.galvan, PhD student, software engineer and lifelong
terminal dweller.
$ cat about.txt
I build software around service level agreements and the
infrastructure behind them. I contribute to open source projects
on the side and treat side projects as a way to keep learning in
public.
$ cat education.txt
PhD in Computer Engineering, University of Seville, in progress
Master in Software Engineering: Cloud, Data Engineering and
IT Management, University of Seville
Degree in Software Engineering, University of Seville
$ cat experience.txt
now EOSC-ARENA, Horizon Europe project on generative and agentic
AI for research. Service level agreements for LLM services
and agents.
now LEIA, AI assistants for software engineering training.
now ALMA, the LLM-as-a-service platform of the University of
Seville. Lead developer and architect, maintainer and in
charge of its deployments.
2026 CERN openlab summer student, Geneva. Git-based declarative
configuration for the CERN Tape Archive (CTA) catalogue.
1st in the Lunar Lander RL challenge and 2nd in the LHCb
cooling challenge.
2026 sla-wizard. Implemented its plugin system and developed its
plugins, which configure the gateways of ALMA.
2025 Lucid Chain, final degree project. SLA monitoring for chains
of services with Governify. Published at JCIS 2025 and
awarded best Software Engineering final degree project at
the ETSII.
$ ls ~/interests/
sla-governance/ service-chains/ llm-infrastructure/
kubernetes/ developer-tooling/ ai-in-education/
$ cat availability.txt
Open to research collaborations on SLAs, LLM infrastructure and
AI agents. Remote friendly. Spanish time zone (CET).
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