Pablo Arteaga is a London-based software engineer with five years of industry and academic experience, currently developing systems at Bloomberg. He holds a first-class Software Engineering degree from the University of Glasgow and pairs backend development skills (C++ and Java ecosystem tools like Hibernate) with practical data-handling research. Pablo is an active contributor to the well-known Trino project, where he implemented an OPA-based OpaAccessControl plugin and system tests to strengthen distributed SQL access control. Comfortable in both fast-paced enterprise environments and research teams, he also brings hands-on experience with Lucene/Solr integrations, CI practices, and deploying event-grade Linux systems that handled RFID and high-throughput networking.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachillerato, Sciences, Matrícula de Honor (10/10), Bachillerato, Sciences, Matrícula de Honor (10/10) at Colegio Hispano Inglés
Software Engineering, Software Engineering, With Honours of the First class, Software Engineering, Software Engineering, With Honours of the First class at The University of Glasgow
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:51 reviews, 5 PRs, 71 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Pablo primarily focused on implementing a security plugin for Trino. Their work involved creating the `OpaAccessControl` class, integrating with Open Policy Agent (OPA) for access control, and defining various security checks. This included implementing methods for checking user impersonation, query execution, system information access, and access to catalog resources. The user also added system tests to validate the behavior of the security features.
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 8 months
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