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California, United States

Globally Remote, US

- Spearheaded the development of a large-scale, decentralized SQL storage and query engine, integrating cutting-edge technologies like Apache Arrow and Datafusion for Space and Time’s Decentralized Data Warehouse.- Implemented a state-of-the-art storage engine in rust, based on Apache Arrow, Noisepage with high- performance lock-free reads, writes and.

Globally Remote, US

Wilmington, Delaware, US

- Designed the innovative distributed consistency system and architected the initial version of consensus and the transaction manager for Apache Kudu.- Engineered crash recovery mechanisms, undo deltas, and made significant contributions to the integration of Apache Kudu with Apache Impala.

Zurich, CH

- Directed the NNS team in the development and maintenance of the DAO managing the Internet Computer Protocol, focusing on governance and tokenomics.- Innovated with the SNS (Service Nervous System), facilitating decentralization, tokenization, and gover- nance for DApps on the Internet Computer platform.

San Francisco, California, US

- Led the creation and direction of software and hardware solutions aimed at advancing neuroscience research.- Developed machine learning algorithms for behavioral prediction and managed full stack development for arobust web application.

Palo Alto, California, US

CortexXus was accepted at StartX for the S19 cohort. Awesome company building experience.

Santa Clara, California, US

Focused on developing Apache Kudu and Apache Impala, contributing to major advancements in real-time analytics and scalable SQL engines.

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Apache Whirr is a set of libraries for running cloud services. Whirr basically provides a cloud-neutral way to run services such as Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, Voldemort or Zookeeper.jclouds is a widely used multi-cloud library. Worked on multiple sub-projects, such as Google Compute Engine provider, OAuth or ImageExtension.

Santa Clara, California, US

Collaborated on Cassandra’s core functionalities, focusing on implementing distributed tracing and indexed range search features.

Austin, TX, US

Worked on several topics with Dr. Vijay Garg and the PDSLab at UT. Namely fault tolerance techniques for stream processing applications, and performance/cost modeling of dynamically provisioned large scale data processing systems.

Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

Worked on multiple Apache jclouds components. Noteworthy is the implementation the first version of the jclouds integration with Google Cloud Platform, specifically the IaaS part. Also worked a bit on Apache Brooklyn and on Apache Hadoop ecosystem integrations.

Coimbra, PT

Performed research in distributed stream processing and storage as part of the Software and Systems Engineering group, under the supervision of Prof. Pedro Bizarro and Prof. Paulo marques. Designed and implemented a large scale, elastic, stream processing system (Flood) which was able to process large volumes of data in real time in a cluster.

San Mateo, CA, US

Designed and implemented the components required for enabling distributed processing and fault-tolerance in Feedzai's state-of-the-art stream-processing, real-time analytics platform.Used Apache ZooKeeper, Apache Avro, along with the the core proprietary stream processing technologies.

Coimbra, PT

Technical lead in an internal enterprise search project at Critical Software. Used Hadoop, HBase, Lucene, OSGi.I accompanied and provided consultancy on the entreprise search project after I left for my PhD.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd, Incomplete, Reached Candidacy), Computer Science

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd, Incomplete, Transfered), Computer Science

Masters, Computer Science

Licentiatura (5Yr Degree, Bsc Equiv.), Computer Science