LabVIEW Champion: Fabiola De la Cueva

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LabVIEW Champions Member Profile - Fabiola De la Cueva

Name:

Fabiola De la Cueva

Motto:

Have you been kind to your future self?

Home:

Cedar Park, TX (just north of Austin, TX)

Programming Languages:

Fluent in LabVIEW, know enough to be dangerous: C, C++, and Java

Certification:

CLA, CPI, CLED

Used LabVIEW Since:

2000

Applications Areas:

I am a LabVIEW expert, my customers are domain experts. I help them figure out the disconnect between what they are telling LabVIEW to do and what they actually want LabVIEW to do. That said, I have worked on software for medical devices, oil & gas, data visualization, automotive, manufacturing tests, etc.

I also teach LabVIEW courses for National Instruments and deliver workshops via DSH-Workshops.

I specialize Source Code Control, code refactoring, good software engineering practices, helping people go from lone wolf to working in a team

Books:

Co-author of LabVIEW Graphical Programming, 5th Edition

Biography:

I was born in Mexico City, and when I was a kid I decided that there could not be anything cooler than being an engineer.  I came up with a "master plan" on how to get there. I went to a full immersion French high school where I graduated as an Electronics Technician and got awarded a scholarship to attend a private university. I graduated from ITESM-CEM with a B.S. in Electronics Systems Engineering (the closest thing in the US would be Computer Engineering).

National Instruments hired me right out of college and I moved to Austin, TX.  I worked at NI for 6 years and then left to get my Masters in Electrical Engineering specializing in Medical devices at the University of Texas.

While working on my Masters, people found out that I knew LabVIEW, and next thing I knew I was being paid to work on LabVIEW projects.  I realized pretty quickly that not only was I good at it, but I enjoyed it a lot. So, I started my own LabVIEW consulting company (Delacor) and I have been doing that since 2006.

I am the lead architect for the Delacor Queued Message Handler.  DQMH is a free toolkit available through the LabVIEW Tools Network and it won product of the year award at NIWeek 2016.

In 2019, I started collaborating with Steve Watts and Joerg Hampel on delivering "Pragmatic Software Development" workshops via DSH-Workshops. I routinely present at NIWeek, CLA Summits, and GDevCon. A list of presentations and links to videos can be fount in the media section at the Delacor website.

When I am not doing LabVIEW, I do pottery for fun.

User Groups:

Together with Allen Smith and Craig Hitchman, I lead the LabVIEW Architects Forum

I co-chaired CLA Summit 2011 and I chared CLA Summit 2012

December 2011 Community Member of the Month: Fabiola De la Cueva
LAVA

Websites and Social Media:

delacor.com

DSH Workshops

Twitter - fabiola31416 

LinkedIn profile

LAVA profile

YouTube Channel - DelacorLLC