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Discover how we're shaping the future of your Pinterest home feed with the latest advancements in embedding-based retrieval! Our dedicated engineers…
Discover how we're shaping the future of your Pinterest home feed with the latest advancements in embedding-based retrieval! Our dedicated engineers…
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Primark 🤝 Pinterest: the ultimate shoppable inspiration! It’s a big day: today, Primark is releasing its first-ever new home collection that has…
Primark 🤝 Pinterest: the ultimate shoppable inspiration! It’s a big day: today, Primark is releasing its first-ever new home collection that has…
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New year, new view: Pinterest was back for CES 2025, where I had the opportunity to share the future of visual search – and the advantages it has…
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Volunteer Experience
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Industry Mentor, Performance Engineering of Software Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Present 5 years 9 months
Science and Technology
I have had the privilege of being a mentor and Deputy in the MIT Performance Engineering of Software Systems for the past few years. In this role, I have guided MIT EECS in mastering the art of building scalable and high-performance software systems. Together with esteemed professors, we cover critical topics like building scalable and high-performance systems. We cover crucial topics, including performance analysis, algorithmic techniques, optimizations, parallel programming, and more.
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Advisory Board Member
Bitergia
- 7 years
Science and Technology
Bitergia specialises in the analysis of Free and Open Source Software projects and their communities. It provides the tooling for tracking the progress and evolution of Open Source Software, and therefore the means to improve their development process, practices, and overall quality.
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Advisory Board Member
Madrid On Rails
- 4 years 2 months
Science and Technology
Madrid on Rails is an initiative of Madrid City Hall and the Ministry of Industry of Spain. It is one of the key initiatives of the City Council to promote the Information Society and to help companies to incorporate the latest technologies, especially Open Source software.
The primary responsibility of the board is to advise Madrid On Rails on all matters of its activities and future development. The Advisory Board seeks to increase the competitive position of Madrid IT industry. -
Project Maintainer
GNU Project
- Present 22 years 5 months
Science and Technology
I designed and developed GNU MAC-Changer, an application for tweaking the MAC address of network interfaces, suitable for the set up of computer clusters and wireless networks. Nowadays it is shipped by all the major Linux and BSD distributions.
During these years of involvement with the GNU Project, I have also played a PR role, primarily meeting with South American government organizations. -
Founder and Project Lead
Cherokee Project
- 13 years 1 month
Science and Technology
Cherokee is one of the most scalable, High-Performance Open Source Web Server available, underpinning business-critical solutions for the World's leading Internet companies. It is used by dozens of thousands of servers on the Internet, and its adoption continues increasing steeply. Recent success stories include:
• International Space Station
• European Space Agency: Rome, Amsterdam and Frankfurt data centers
• U.S. Department of Energy
• The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce
•…Cherokee is one of the most scalable, High-Performance Open Source Web Server available, underpinning business-critical solutions for the World's leading Internet companies. It is used by dozens of thousands of servers on the Internet, and its adoption continues increasing steeply. Recent success stories include:
• International Space Station
• European Space Agency: Rome, Amsterdam and Frankfurt data centers
• U.S. Department of Energy
• The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce
• Lawrence Lessig servers
• Spanish Government: Castilla la Mancha county
• Open Street Map, The Netherlands
It's also common to find Cherokee embedded in all sort of electronics. For instance:
• All GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) cameras and drones
• ATN high-end digital rifle scopes
• Xiaomi action cameras
• Digi International (NASDAQ: DGII) IoT kits -
Individual Member of Foundation
OpenStack
- 4 years 9 months
Science and Technology
I led the RDO community and the Packstack project. I also managed TryStack's (public cloud) SRE team, the CentOS's OpsTools SIG, and the OpenStack Puppet project (from Red Hat's end).
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Member
GNOME Foundation
- 11 years 4 months
Science and Technology
The GNOME Foundation is a non-profit organization that furthers the goals of the GNOME Project, helping it to create a free software computing platform for the general public that is designed to be elegant, efficient, and easy to use.
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Mentor
Tetuan Valley
- 2 years 1 month
Science and Technology
Tetuan Valley is a non-profit organization geared towards the promotion of entrepreneurship and the creation of a true startup hub in Tetuan (Madrid, Spain) linked with similar initiatives all over the world.
Publications
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Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron)
Packt Publishing
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OpenStack Essentials
Packt Publishing
Courses
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21st Century Leadership Challenge
The University of Chicago
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Advanced Internet Services
139
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Advanced Negotiation
IE Business School
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Advanced Negotiation II
IE Business School
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Advanced Topics in Networking
416
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
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Building a High Performance Environment
IE Business School
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Classification
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Clustering & Retrieval
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Corporate Agility
The University of Chicago
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Data Mining
Artificial Intelligence
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Data Products Development
with distinction
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Data Science Tools
with distinction
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Deep Learning
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Exploratory Data Analysis
with distinction
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Getting and Cleaning Data
with distinction
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How to Compete in Global Markets
IE Business School
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Intelligent Agents
427
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Keys to Implementing Strategy
The University of Chicago
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Knowledge-based Systems
Artificial Intelligence
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Leading Your Most Talented Employees
IE Business School
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Machine Learning
with distinction
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Machine Learning Foundations
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Machine Learning and Statistical Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
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Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Artificial Intelligence
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Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence
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Principles of Strategic Management
The University of Chicago
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Public Speaking — University of Washington
COM 220
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R Programming
Johns Hopkins University
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Recommender Systems & Dimensionality Reduction
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Regression
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Regression Models
with distinction
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Reproducible Research
with distinction
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Satellite Networks
411
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Simulation of Telecommunication Networks
191
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Statistical Inference
with distinction
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Strategic Innovation
The University of Chicago
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Telecommunications and Network Security
423
Projects
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Open Source
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I've made technical contributions to some of the most relevant Open Source and Free Software projects, including GNU, the Linux kernel, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ansible, Ubuntu, PyData's numexpr, OpenSolaris, GNOME, WebKit, and Cherokee.
Honors & Awards
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Red Hat "Mega" Ambassador
Red Hat Ambassadors Program
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Canonical's Spotlight Award 2012
Jane Silber, CEO
Canonical's "Spotlight Award - Q1 2012" for the rigorous approach to development and quality.
Languages
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English
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Spanish
Native or bilingual proficiency
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