Agustín Benassi
Data Architect & Product Owner
About me
I work in the intersection between data, technology and policy.
I serve as Public Data Director at the Secretariat of Modernisation, part of the Argentina's Cabinet Office.
I craft digital products, code and help organisations manage their data through developing policy, strategy and guidelines.
Contact information
agusbenassi@gmail.com | twitter| github | medium | linkedin
Experience
Undersecretary of Open Government and Public Innovation · Cabinet Office of Argentina
Public Data Director (Jun 2019 - current)
Open Data Policy Coordinator (Jan 2018 - May 2019)
Technology for Public Policy Adviser (Jan 2016 – Dec 2017)
I coordinate the design and implementation of the Open Data Policy at the national level, and assist government units in improving their data management skills. Published open source projects from the Public Data Direction are at Argentina’s Data Team Github.
Products I have managed:
- Time Series API and related tools. A practical API to query time series data - following FREDs inspiration - and its ecosystem of tools to
transform data into time series, validate time series catalogs and visualize
time series on the web.
- Georef API. An API to normalize geographical names in Argentina, geolocate addresses and expand coordinates associated data.
- Portal Andino. The technology behind the National Open Data Portal of Argentina.
- API Gateway. A tool to manage public APIs.
Buenos Aires City Government Laboratory
Resident Innovator (Sep 2015 – Dec 2015)
Developed the prototype "Transport Oriented Development" at Buenos Aires City Government Laboratory.
Recurse Center
Participant (Feb 2015 – May 2015)
The Recurse Center is a community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
Center of Studies of the Situation and Perspectives of Argentina (CESPA) · University of Buenos Aires
Research Assistant (Aug 2012 – Feb 2015)
Researched about freight transportation networks.
- Un Modelo de Costos para el Transporte Terrestre de Cargas en Argentina | PDF
- Transporte Automotor de Cargas en Argentina: una Estimación de Orígenes y Destinos - 2010 | On-line version | PDF | Github repository
Center for the Implementation of Public Policies for Equity and Growth (CIPPEC)
Applied Research Assistant (Jun 2013 – Dec 2013)
Modelling and analyzing data bases about transportation and economics.
Faculty of Economics · University of Buenos Aires
Teaching Assistant (Jan 2012 – Dec 2017)
Compared Economic Systems, Projects Evaluation and Industrial Organisation.
MiNU
Volunteer (Jan 2007 – Jun 2010)
Organizing events at civil association doing UN and legislative participative models for young people.
Studies
University of Buenos Aires, Economics Science Faculty
Economics Degree (2007 – 2013)
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires
Bachellor’s Degree (2002 – 2006)
Selected talks
Regional Conference of Open Data in Latin America and the Caribbean (CONDATOS 2019)
Participation on panel "Open Data Public Policies in the Region".
International Open Data Conference (IODC 2018)
Participation on panel "Open Data Infrastructure: The Importance of Data Governance".
Belize Open Week (BOW 2018)
Talks and workshops over a week of training in Open Government and Open Data organized by the Organization of American States for the Government and civil society of Belize.
Regional Conference of Open Data in Latin America and the Caribbean (CONDATOS 2016)
Talk in the "Smart Cities" workshop about Open Data applied in urban contexts.
Regional Conference of Open Data in Latin America and the Caribbean (CONDATOS 2015)
Workshop "Xlseries: a python package to scrape time series from Excel files".
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO 2017)
2 day workshop on PO topics and techniques.
Skills
The strongest
Python - Jupyter Notebooks - Product Management - Agile Development - Data Design
The rest
JavaScript - HTML - CSS - SQL - PostGIS - Git - Github - PEGs - Travis CI - Coveralls