Alberto Contreras Email & Phone Number

Spain

Member of the Public Cloud team focused on making Ubuntu great on Public Clouds (AWS, Google, Azure, IBM and Oracle clouds).Ubuntu Server is the world's most popular Linux - on cloud and bare metal.Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, leads the development of cloud-init, a critical tool in cloud computing. Supported by all major clouds, cloud-init standardizes virtual machine initialization.Ubuntu Pro is a suite of specialist services, as kernel live-patching or security patching, provided by Canonical. The Ubuntu Pro Client is the command-line tool for managing these services.Responsabilities- Build tools that are used by millions of people around the world- Work alongside major cloud partners and multiple Canonical product teams to develop, test, and release new features and improvements to cloud-init and the Pro client- Be a key voice in the cloud-init open source community, engaging with users, developers and major contributing companies- Write high quality code, with unit and functional tests, to create new features focusing on software interoperability over a vast range of target releases and environments- Explore ideas through proofs of concept to find effective solutions- Review peers’ and community code and ensure high standards- Debug, triage, and resolve issuesAcomplishments- Maintained a performance ranking in the 90th percentile- Built support in cloud-init for automated management of hot-plugged NICs on AWS Ubuntu vms- Created cloud-specific cloud-init meta Debian packages to reduce MBs of image size- Decreased 15s from Ubuntu Pro instance's boot time by minimizing apt-update calls during pro-attach- Reduced 5s of boot time on Google Cloud Ubuntu instances by optimizing udev rules for disk and network devices- Enabled Ubuntu networking on Google Cloud A3 instance type - Optimized 5s latency on Ubuntu 22.10+ Azure instances with multiple NICs- Extended pycloudlib to enable IMB VPC integration testing for Ubuntu vms

Málaga, Andalucía, España

Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

- Incubated a system to automate and forecast Digital Marketing campaigns for Broadside9

Viena, Austria

- Invented an algorithm to n-way match tabular financial data with a DAG and topological order enabling this operation to be performed within a single instance- Created multiple REST APIs wrapping machine learning models MLOps-Stabilized ML library and operations, adding quality and efficiency- Migrated the AI Reconciliation product to a microservice architecture on AWS

Austria

- Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence and Numerical Simulation in technical development- Implemented car-following models in in-house and the VISSIM simulators to allow synthetic data generation- Refactored the in-house smart cities' simulator, easing maintainability and adoption of features- Conducted ML studies for Connecting Austria: Connecting energy-efficient and semi-automatedtrucks from the motorway to the cityMain contribution: develop in Connecting Austria project, evaluating energy-efficient and semi-automated truck platoons. http://www.connecting-austria.at/#/home

Master Of Computer Science Applied To Mobile Telecommunications (Inftel), Computer Science, Master'S Degree

Activities and Societies: Vodafone Foundation Spain

Degree Of Mathematics, Mathematics, Bachelor'S Degree

Internship In Normaliz Project, Computational Mathematics

https://www.normaliz.uni-osnabrueck.de/