- broad experience in working with large distributed research engineering teams - communication at senior (CTO, VP, Director) levels - 4+ experience in software engineering team management - 9 years in software development for the Industry - middleware systems specialist (Cloud and data management systems) - 11 years experience in data analysis and modelling in social, biological and operational computing - passionate about the human brain, cognition and technology - 3+ years in technological strategy definition and implementation and IP management - experience in raising funds for research from public and private entities My goal is to track down really interesting, complex, interdisciplinary, difficult problems, then solve them with practical application to corporate daily life. I am also open to considering a position in a startup environment working on high throughput distributed infrastructure and/or brain-inspired technologies. Specialties: - Bio-inspired algorithms - Data analysis - Configuration management systems - Large scale data management systems - Cloud computing - Distributed computing - System scalability - Strategy definition and implementation - Dynamic cloud provisioning - Java developing - Scientific grant/paper writing - Research project coordination - Product/scientific presentations

Principal Software Engineer @ Driven a team of highly skilled and motivated senior software engineers to deliver on a variety of advanced software development projects including: - advanced visualisation techniques applied to a variety of complex data processing algorithms for the extraction of actionable insight in large IT infrastructures From May 2015 to Present (6 months) United KingdomVisiting Senior Lecturer @ Visiting lecturer on distributed systems and big data courses for grad students of CS. Co-advisor of M.Sc. and Ph.D. Theses. From January 2013 to September 2015 (2 years 9 months) London, United KingdomSenior Research Engineer @ * Large scale management systems for the data centre - Loom large-scale management tool to control 1000000s of hosts from a mobile phone/tablet! See: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Innovation-HP-Labs/Introducing-Loom-A-new-tool-for-managing-complex-systems/ba-p/167748#.VFYfFPmsUzE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vutp0VP4EQY - Bittorrent acceleration of data transfers to newly instantiated VMs. Reduced the time it takes to load large data sets in big data VMs on demand. Tested on thousands of VMs and with hundreds of TBs. * Massive scale neuro-inspired data analytics - Neural network processing on a mid-sized cluster of Spark nodes. Detection of anomalies in graphs applied to terrorism and fraud detection. - Neural network based Graph anonymisation for dynamic graphs. - Tool for massive graph extraction/construction. Graph algorithms. See our ICDCS paper for a high level overview. Some of the ideas of this paper have been open sourced by third parties as part of Apache Giraph (see https://github.com/grafos-ml/okapi). Our in-house implementation runs on Cassandra and zeroMQ. 200% performance increase over a similar solution on HDFS and RabbitMQ. - Unsupervised ML techniques applied to unveil unknown adverse effects in triplets of drugs (trillions of triplets are possible). Matched FDA reports of adverse effects in a probabilistic manner (Naive Bayes) and used top ranked triplets to find similarities in their 3D structure that could cause the adverse effect. - Massive big data app (with Apache Pig) for DNA alignment (1000 human genomes). Hadoop for adverse reaction discovery * Patent Coordinator - presentation of patents to HP's CTO board for final approval - patent evaluation and assessment for initial filing and renewal - matching of IP portfolio with the strategy of the company From December 2011 to May 2015 (3 years 6 months) Scalability and Elasticity. Area Coordinator. IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing @ Bridging the gap between industrial and academic research towards increased transfers to the Industry. Acted as a hub facilitating relationships between academics and several SMEs. From February 2012 to January 2015 (3 years) Research Engineer @ InNetDC: product manager, developer and tester of a prototype for optimising bulk data transfers across WANs by locating portable datacentres in the core network. The prototype involved large scale emulation of ISP backbones and real cloud infrastructure to create transient data stores in privileged network locations (optimised à la Akamai "middle mile"). We reduced transfer times in up to a 70% reducing network traffic at the edge. Data analytics (using Hadoop). These were applied to deal with biological data (chaos theory simulations) and small (educational social interactions) and large scale (30% of the World's tweet were analysed) social analysis. Technical participation in two EU-cofunded research projects (creation of a pan-European experimental cloud) and spanning the cloud concept to WAN (datacenter federation). From December 2010 to December 2011 (1 year 1 month) Assistant Professor @ Planned the contents, lectured, instructed in the lab (4 h/week) and evaluated more than 200 students/year in several topics related with computer science and distributed systems. Students directly interacted with state of the art cloud technologies such as Google's Application Engine and Amazon EC2. From September 2009 to August 2011 (2 years) Consultant @ Consultant for different companies and governments in the area of cloud computing. Designed, specified and followed-up cloud projects applied to education and medicine/medical research (2M€ overall). Designed marketing campaigns and segmented markets for better targeting of the resulting products. From September 2010 to February 2011 (6 months) Cloud IPR and OSS Manager @ ------------------------------- 1. Managed the IPR portfolio of the Cloud Computing Area and served as a link with the Strategy Department. - In charge of applied (patent-oriented) research. - Actively pursued the inclusion of the patented ideas into advanced research products for the company. - Preventive publication. - Increased the number of patents of the area by 300%. - Coordinated a team of 5+ people and executed the patent writing and relations with lawyers before final filing. - Presentation/defense of the ideas to the patent committee (internal experts in charge of prioritizing which patents get through and which do not). ----------------------------- 2. Created marketing collateral and messaging documents (Product collateral, website copy, emails, articles, press releases, whitepapers, Write Customer case studies by interviewing internal and customer personnel, compelling messages for online / offline marketing campaigns) - Developed sales tools including ROI calculators, powerpoint presentations, solution selling sheets, competitive cheat sheets, etc. - Developed strategy and content for several online/offline marketing campaigns with a focus on results (web seminars, tradeshows and events – with internal and external speakers; text, newsletter, banner ads, whitepaper postings in targeted web / print media; Email marketing – prioritize database of leads and execute targeted campaigns) - Managed the Claudia Community (customers, partners, developers) through online programs and services. From April 2010 to November 2010 (8 months) Researcher @ Designed, implemented and coordinated innovation activities in management of cloud computing, including field trials and demonstrations. Main architect and developer of the module for Automated Service Scaling in Telefónica's Global Cloud. In charge of executing the technical coordination of large distributed teams (more than 20 people). Planned, designed and executed internal coordination and external visibility activities for the projects. Edited and coauthored technical and strategic plans and contributed in presenting reports to Scientific and Business Advisory Boards. Elaborated Annual Activity Reports and executive presentations for the Steering Committee of the company. Established strategic R&D partnerships in distributed systems and participated in 6 projects in middleware and cloud computing (managed 2 of them). Raised public (EU, Spanish Ministry of science and innovation, etc.) and private funds (mainly from companies within Telefónica Group) for more than €2e6. Established relations with other companies of/participated by the group (O2 UK, T. España), and served as a link with several Innovation Areas and Corporate Strategy within the group regarding OSS. Fostered public, marketing-oriented demonstrations and lab- and testbed-based experiments and demonstrations. Disseminated the activities and achievements of the Division inside the Telefónica Group as well as outside (participation in fora, publications, invited speeches and training). Contributed to three standards (OVF extensions, SMI at DMTF and OCCI at OGF) and include them in private and open source tools developed by the group (http://claudia.morfeo-project.org/). Technology evangelist online and at different international events (http://cloudtechnologies.morfeo-project.org/). From July 2008 to June 2010 (2 years) Visiting research associate @ Software and data mining algorithms for correlating single cardiac mutations clustering generating malfunctional proteins leading to cardiac arrhythmia. From January 2008 to June 2008 (6 months) Visiting research associate @ Mathematical modelling and non linear systems theory application to cardiac arrhythmia. FPGA programming for real time applications to cardiac research. From June 2007 to December 2007 (7 months) Founder and CEO @ - In charge of the technological strategy and marketing of the company. - Technical coordination of 4 people and RFID tag implantation in sheep. - Direct contact with a variety of clients (30+) widespread in EU's largest rural area. From September 2006 to May 2007 (9 months) Junior/Senior Developer @ - Network maintenance, VoIP setup and management. bioinformatic application development, mathematical modelling of biological systems, simulation over grid platforms and clusters, and patch-clamp. • Designed, implemented and validated distributed system based software (mainly MPI or grid-based) for biomedical simulations. • Contributed to the design and experimentation of several biological experiments involving molecular biology and electrophysiology. • Also involved in grant writing and fund rising activities for both, public and private entibies (raised funds around 50,000€). Reported directly to the research director. From July 2004 to May 2007 (2 years 11 months) junior programmer @ Development of services in distributed systems environments. Rapid prototyping and ICT research. From September 2003 to June 2004 (10 months) VoIP Intern @ Setup and maintenance of a VoIP platform connected to a satellite link for intercontinental communications. Development of value-added services for the platform in XML and C/C++ From 2001 to 2001 (less than a year)

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Telematics) @ Universidad de Valladolid From 2004 to 2010 Ph.D., Pharmacology, Cardiology, Biophysics, Mathematical modelling @ Universidad Complutense de Madrid From 2004 to 2009 MSc, Information and communication Systems @ Universidad de Valladolid From 2004 to 2007 MSc, Pharmacology @ Universidad Complutense de Madrid From 2004 to 2006 MSc, Telecommunication Engineering @ Universidad de Valladolid From 2001 to 2003 BSc, Electronics @ Universidad de Valladolid From 1997 to 2001 Luis Vaquero is skilled in: cloud computing, data analytics, software development, Distributed Systems, Scalability, Java, Linux, Grid Computing, Data Mining, Programming, Software Engineering, Algorithms, Research, Statistics, Cloud Computing, Software Development, Unix, Open Source, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Hadoop, LaTeX, Python, Machine Learning, Big Data, XML, SOA, High Performance..., Artificial Intelligence, Software Design, REST, Simulations, Bash, Databases, System Architecture, UML