Alejandro Almela
Chief Technology Officer at Space ALMA
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolAlejandro Almela is a technology leader and CTO with deep expertise in cryogenic electronics, RF systems, and software-defined radio for astrophysics and particle physics instruments. With over a decade at CNEA and leadership of a 30+ person engineering department, he has designed microwave SQUID multiplexing and room-temperature SDR readouts for large bolometer arrays, including the QUBIC CMB polarization experiment. He bridges hands-on FPGA/MPSoC development (RFSoC, Xilinx Vivado) with high-frequency electromagnetic design tools (HFSS, FastHenry), enabling full-stack hardware-to-software integration across 4–8 GHz heterodyne systems. Alejandro also teaches applied RF and SDR courses at UTN and UNSAM, translating research-grade systems into practical curricula. Notably, he architected a heterodyne SDR approach to read out 1000 multiplexer channels across 4 GHz bandwidth using sub-band mixing to work around converter sample-rate limits. Based in Buenos Aires, he combines academic rigor (Doctor of Engineering in signal processing) with program-level delivery of complex scientific instrumentation.
8 years of coding experience
Tecnico Tecnología/Técnico de ingeniería eléctrica electrónica y de comunicaciones, Tecnico Tecnología/Técnico de ingeniería eléctrica electrónica y de comunicaciones at Instituto San JoseDoctor of Engineering
Signal processing, Doctor of Engineering
Signal processing at Universidad Tecnológica NacionalGithub contributions (5)
eaiii-frba-utn/2019
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:62 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
eaiii-frba-utn/2020
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:139 commits, 130 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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