He started using Debian GNU/Linux in 2002 and keeps collaborating ever since with Linux User Groups BxLUG (Brussels) and Linuca (Cantabria region, Spain). He discovered Ada in 1998 through the lectures of Prof. Michael Gonzalez Harbour in Cantabria. After a 5 year period of IT consulting work in Brussels (where he discovered Free Software), he returned to his home University of Cantabria to start a research career on Real-Time systems in the European FP6 FRESCOR project.