Alberto Alvarez
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolAlberto Alvarez is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance ML and systems software across NVIDIA and Microsoft, currently based in the Greater Barcelona area. He blends deep low-level expertise in C++, CUDA and performance optimization with cloud-native infrastructure skills (Docker, CI/CD, AWS/GCP) to ship production-grade recommender and NLP tooling such as contributions to NVIDIA Merlin and work on cuDNN. A former teaching assistant and research engineer, he pairs strong academic foundations from Universidad de Zaragoza and UIUC with hands-on experience accelerating deep learning and on-chip systems. Colleagues rely on him for bridging research and production: he’s as comfortable tuning kernels and builds as he is designing release pipelines and mentoring teams. Notably, his background spans hardware acceleration, computer vision, and large-scale ML infra, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on performance-sensitive AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 9.45/10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 9.45/10 at Universidad de ZaragozaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, English
Github Skills (106)
feature-extraction10
feature-engineering10
datasets10
tabular10
recommender-system10
recommender10
preprocessing10
nvidia10
wkwebview10
feature-selection10
tsne10
sequential10
pandas9
opencl9
scale9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
albert17/UrlShortener2015
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:102 PRs, 257 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
albert17/WebCam-V4L2
Dec 2016 - Jul 2021
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
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