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Santiago Peñate Vera

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Santiago Peñate Vera

Worked on the SanPen/GridCal repository to deliver advanced power systems analysis and simulation tools, focusing on modularity, reliability, and extensibility. Developed features such as dynamic RMS and EMT simulations, device relationship graph visualization, and enhanced grid modeling workflows. Leveraged Python and Qt for backend and GUI development, integrating technologies like Numba and FastAPI to optimize performance and interoperability. Refactored core algorithms for power flow, state estimation, and contingency analysis, while improving test coverage and documentation. The technical approach emphasized maintainable code, robust data handling, and cross-platform compatibility, resulting in a scalable platform for grid planning, analysis, and dynamic simulation.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

73%Features

Repository Contributions

1,876Total
Bugs
244
Commits
1,876
Features
675
Lines of code
9,387,879
Activity Months21

Your Network

18 people

Work History

June 2026

3 Commits • 3 Features

Jun 1, 2026

June 2026 – SanPen/GridCal: Three major features delivered to boost visibility, modeling flexibility, and power-system analysis. LF Energy Landscape Badge implemented to increase project recognition within the energy systems community. Device Relationship Graph in MultiCircuit added to visualize typed property references across device classes. Dynamic Power System Simulations (RMS & EMT) introduced to enhance dynamic analysis of power networks. No major bugs fixed this month; focus was on feature delivery and stabilizing releases (6.1.x). Business value includes faster decision support, improved interoperability, and richer simulation capabilities. Technologies/skills demonstrated: modular feature integration, graph visualization, dynamic simulations, and release-managed development with clear commit histories (4c74613b80577e22cea5713427c65d4a3c553945; a3db41789ab75a42966012885969079759ae09f1; 5b08c3844881524ce9a28a4b83a189c270d323a5).

May 2026

27 Commits • 5 Features

May 1, 2026

May 2026 focused on delivering a stable, well-documented 6.0.x release stream for SanPen/GridCal, with significant enhancements to version management, documentation, and CI reliability. Key milestones include a comprehensive 6.0.x version bump sequence, OSV vulnerability reporting integration, refreshed documentation, and robust release hygiene across the repository.

April 2026

2 Commits • 2 Features

Apr 1, 2026

April 2026: Delivered two major features for SanPen/GridCal with a focus on collaboration improvements and modeling accuracy. 1) Matrix-based chat integration migrated from Discord, accompanied by dynamic editor enhancements and dependency adjustments to stabilize the editor workflow. 2) New Electrical Components GUI Editors introduced: controllable shunts and a three-winding transformer editor, expanding GUI interactions for electrical components. No major bugs reported this month; efforts centered on reliability, performance, and maintainability. Business impact includes reduced external chat dependency, streamlined component configuration, and enhanced modeling fidelity. Technologies/skills demonstrated include Matrix-based integration, dynamic editor architecture, GUI editor development, and dependency management.

March 2026

1 Commits • 1 Features

Mar 1, 2026

March 2026: Delivered the VeraGrid 5.6.31 release for SanPen/GridCal, focusing on upgrade readiness, stability, and maintainability. The release consolidates improvements and bug fixes across VeraGrid 5.6.31, validated by a single release commit (6bf283afc633aef1cd222ee808cf0293c928d8d6). This work reduces operational risk for customers upgrading and establishes a solid baseline for future feature deployments, while ensuring traceability and minimal downtime.

February 2026

6 Commits • 4 Features

Feb 1, 2026

February 2026 monthly summary for SanPen/GridCal focused on delivering data compatibility improvements, grid simulation enhancements, and UI/usability refinements that drive reliability, testability, and business value. Delivered cross-cutting changes across data handling, power flow features, and test infrastructure while maintaining code quality through refactors.

January 2026

2 Commits • 2 Features

Jan 1, 2026

January 2026: Focused on delivering user-facing time series navigation enhancements and code quality improvements for SanPen/GridCal. Achieved a smoother, more discoverable time-series exploration in the GUI, reduced technical debt through refactoring, and enhanced documentation for faster onboarding and maintenance.

December 2025

10 Commits • 3 Features

Dec 1, 2025

December 2025 focused on delivering business-value through core VeraGrid improvements, UI refinements, and expanded power grid analysis capabilities for SanPen/GridCal, while tightening developer experience. Key updates include VeraGrid Core Improvements and RMS Editor UX (version 5.6.2) with integration enhancements and workflow/interoperability fixes; VeraGrid User Interface Enhancements (About dialog, updated icons, refined analysis dialog); Power Grid Analysis Enhancements (grid reduction, contingency filtering, short circuit analysis/state estimation, short circuit event handling, distributed slack options) with testing; and workspace cleanup by removing unnecessary workspace.xml to streamline IDE configuration. These efforts improved user productivity, analysis reliability, and cross-system interoperability, enabling faster, safer grid decision-making.

November 2025

8 Commits • 2 Features

Nov 1, 2025

November 2025 Monthly Summary for SanPen/GridCal (developer): Delivered substantial grid modeling and analysis enhancements, plus UI/data management improvements, with upstream integration and stability fixes to support reliable planning and operations. Focused on business value and technical excellence across modeling accuracy, data handling, and cross-team collaboration.

October 2025

8 Commits • 3 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly performance summary for SanPen/GridCal. Delivered major feature enhancements to GridCal's PTDF reduction path, refactored topology processing, and introduced tooling to improve code quality and data model clarity. Also completed a merge commitment integration to unify changes from an adjacent branch, ensuring release integrity and test stability.

September 2025

88 Commits • 45 Features

Sep 1, 2025

September 2025 focused on stabilizing core modeling and expanding capabilities while advancing release readiness. Key outcomes include a major API refactor with SE code integration, performance and reliability improvements in analysis workflows, and expanded grid modeling features (HVDC-to-VSC conversion, PTDF-based planning, and procedural/grid analysis). In addition, UI/visualization improvements and documentation updates support better decision-making and onboarding. Release readiness progressed with version bumps and Python 3.13 test updates.

August 2025

181 Commits • 69 Features

Aug 1, 2025

Aug 2025 (SanPen/GridCal) delivered foundational feature work, performance improvements, and release readiness across the GridCal codebase. Key features include early gslv interface integration with set_var_bounds refactor moved into the LoModel class, migration to the pulp 3 package with updated dependencies and interfaces, and substantial improvements to the gslv-lp interface. Major bug fixes addressed critical performance and robustness gaps in MIP interfaces, multiple-island handling in state estimation, pandapower parser robustness, and measurements parsing. The concurrent SE enhancements, ward reduction refinements, and test-suite stabilization yielded more reliable optimization workflows, faster runtimes, and a smoother path to version 5.4.0. Technologies demonstrated include Python-based optimization interfaces (gslv, pulp), advanced state estimation methods, and extensive test automation for robust software delivery.

July 2025

234 Commits • 74 Features

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for SanPen/GridCal: Delivered a set of high-impact features, stability fixes, and performance improvements. Focus areas included AI-driven iteration constructs, GUI workflow enhancements for 3-phase operation, and partial dynamics integration, all while improving reliability and maintainability through refactors and targeted bug fixes. This batch of work positions GridCal for the 5.4.0 release and strengthens scalability, robustness, and developer productivity.

June 2025

142 Commits • 51 Features

Jun 1, 2025

June 2025 focused on delivering feature-rich enhancements to GridCal, stabilizing core optimization routines, and improving performance and maintainability. Highlights include UI enhancements for VSC graphics, early AC/DC integration in NTC optimization, reliability improvements with time-range calls, and major code cleanup to reduce complexity, all driving better planning accuracy and faster runtimes.

May 2025

160 Commits • 63 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025 monthly summary — SanPen/GridCal: Achieved modularity, reliability, and test coverage gains with cross‑project validation. Key features delivered include isolating the compute_f function in pf_generalized_formulation.py to improve modularity and testability and refining the find_latest_version logic for reliability. Expanded PF test coverage by adding gslv‑derived results and established robust bulk PF cross‑validation between gridcal and gslv. Major bugs fixed include numerical zero correction in ys computation, activation alignment with the latest gslv GUI, round‑trip processing fixes, HVDC time‑series power flow bugs, and restoration of gslv imports. All changes were tracked with explicit commits to facilitate traceability. Technologies demonstrated include Python modularization and refactoring, CGMES and garbage data handling improvements, time‑series conversion extensions, and enhanced NTC/three‑phase workflows.

April 2025

194 Commits • 71 Features

Apr 1, 2025

April 2025: GridCal progressed significantly in security hardening, modeling fidelity, testing coverage, and release readiness. The month saw major platform enhancements, extensive refactoring for maintainability, and a disciplined versioning cadence to support faster releases.

March 2025

208 Commits • 66 Features

Mar 1, 2025

March 2025 (2025-03) was focused on delivering measurable business value through reliability, maintainability, and performance improvements in SanPen/GridCal. Key features shipped include rotation of Schematic widgets for flexible diagram layouts, drastic simplification of ContingencyIndices to improve maintainability, PSSe compatibility improvements with ongoing resolution of issue #341, and backend/API modernization comprising server scaffolding, modular FastAPI endpoints, and centralized driver creation. The work also introduced 3-phase Ybus tooling to streamline multi-circuit analysis. Major bugs fixed enhanced data exchange and rendering reliability, including fixes to results sending/parsing, removal of a server connection infinite loop, substations drawing time issues, and certificate handling reliability. Overall, these efforts strengthened data integrity, system stability, and scalability, enabling more robust simulations and faster client interactions. Technologies/skills demonstrated encompassed Python, FastAPI, API design and refactoring, data modeling improvements, UI/UX enhancements, and rigorous debugging and testing practices.

February 2025

76 Commits • 23 Features

Feb 1, 2025

February 2025 — SanPen/GridCal: Focused on release engineering, parsing reliability, and simulation accuracy, delivering a robust baseline for production with improved developer UX and stronger tests. Major release engineering delivered version bumps from 5.3.5 through 5.3.14 with release notes, plus targeted refactors and performance enhancements. Parsing and import reliability improved with enhanced UCTE parsing, PSSe import fixes, and resilience against incomplete reads and request loading failures. Developer experience and performance were improved via Interactive Console enhancements, a new format_lines utility, and dependency upgrades (brotlicffi), along with early gslv integration. Testing and quality uplift included transformer test refactors and expanded Sbase tests. New grid modeling features added ACDC paper grids and a grid layout; LM improvements increased usability and accuracy. These efforts reduce release risk, boost modeling fidelity, and speed up iteration cycles.

January 2025

184 Commits • 64 Features

Jan 1, 2025

January 2025 (SanPen/GridCal): Focused on stabilizing generalized power flow testing, expanding data ingestion capabilities, and strengthening ACOPF integration. Key outcomes include reliable Generalized PF tests, generator availability profiling with propagation into ACOPF, matpower parsing enhancements with matacdc case support, HVDC option control in generalized PF, and targeted ACOPF migration bug fixes. These efforts improve modeling fidelity, reduce regression risk, and accelerate readiness for production deployment. Additional improvements in documentation and testing infrastructure contributed to overall code quality and maintainability.

December 2024

140 Commits • 54 Features

Dec 1, 2024

December 2024 – SanPen/GridCal: Delivered release preps, reliability improvements, and core PF enhancements that translate into faster release cycles, more accurate grid modeling, and a more maintainable codebase. Key activities included dual release-prep runs (5.3.0a2 and 5.3.0a3) with notes and bumps; refactoring to move line tap to the branch parent; extensive generalized power flow work with v1 completed and v2 under active rework; added CDF expectation calculations and an explicit error metric to quantify numerical accuracy; performance and scalability improvements in adjacency matrices (Lil to COO) and ACDC indexing; plugin/UI enhancements enabling external windows and version display; and broader testing improvements with PTDF/NTC/topology tests passing, plus documentation updates. These efforts collectively improve reliability, scalability, and speed of GridCal for planning and operation use.

November 2024

164 Commits • 59 Features

Nov 1, 2024

November 2024 was focused on delivering foundational generalized modeling capabilities, improving data architecture, and strengthening release readiness for GridCal. Key work included introducing BranchGroupTypes and PfGeneralizedFormulation, moving numerical circuit compilation to the compiler for faster builds, and laying groundwork for indices-based workflows with indices generation and a slice method in GeneralizedSimulationIndices. Significant refactors modernized data models (branch_data -> passive_branch_data / active_branch_data), packaging robustness, and UI improvements (GridCalMainGUI and set_circuit enhancements). Release orchestration and documentation were advanced with version bumps and updated READMEs/Matpower results, enabling smoother validation and deployment.

October 2024

38 Commits • 11 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024: Delivered foundational reliability, performance, and ecosystem improvements for GridCal. Implemented ERCOT raw file reading fixes, comprehensive bug fixes and type corrections across modules, and introduced configurable compiled arrays to enhance performance control. Strengthened NumPy 2.0 compatibility while maintaining backward compatibility with older NumPy versions, and expanded tests for migration scenarios. Completed release engineering steps including version bumps (5.1.59) and release readiness for 6.0.0, with licensing migrated to MPL-2.0. Improved UX and docs: About dialog enhancements, ReadTheDocs fixes and docs compilation, and added missing API modules. Added new capabilities such as detect_facilities and enhanced data ingestion/processing. These efforts reduce onboarding time, broaden supported environments, and improve data reliability for customers.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness86.6%
Maintainability85.4%
Architecture82.4%
Performance76.0%
AI Usage21.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

BashBinaryC++CSSCSVCythonDiaExcelHTMLJSON

Technical Skills

AC-DC Power FlowAC/DC Power FlowAI/MLAPI DesignAPI DevelopmentAPI DocumentationAPI IntegrationAPI UsageAPI designAPI developmentAdmittance Matrix CalculationAlgorithm DesignAlgorithm DevelopmentAlgorithm ImplementationAlgorithm Optimization

Repositories Contributed To

1 repo

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SanPen/GridCal

Oct 2024 Jun 2026
21 Months active

Languages Used

PythonShellUIXMLreStructuredTextrstC++Excel

Technical Skills

API DocumentationAPI IntegrationBackend DevelopmentBug FixingBuild SystemsCircuit Simulation