Álvaro G
Computer Scientist
Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolÁlvaro G is a computer scientist and PhD candidate specializing in social networks, privacy, and applied machine learning with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and practical innovation. He holds a double European MSc in Distributed Computing from KTH and IST and is pursuing doctoral work at Université de Rennes I, with visiting and postdoctoral experience at Cambridge and Queen Mary. Álvaro combines rigorous theoretical training with hands-on experimentation, focusing on radical, real-world solutions and entrepreneurial engagement through Lisbon’s startup scene. He blends interests in infosec and big data with a maker’s mentality—describing himself as a part-time hacker—while staying curious about user-centered privacy impacts. Fluent in collaborative, cross-institutional research, he brings a track record of international study and industry-facing scholarship across Europe. Outside academia he’s an avid surfer and Korean food aficionado, signaling a balance of creative risk-taking and cultural curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
BSc, Information Systems & Information Technology, BSc, Information Systems & Information Technology at Technological University DublinDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, École doctorale Mathématiques, télécommunications, informatique, signal, systèmes, électronique, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, École doctorale Mathématiques, télécommunications, informatique, signal, systèmes, électronique at Université de Rennes IErasmus Mundus, Double Master's Degree in Distributed Computing, Erasmus Mundus, Double Master's Degree in Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyPostdoctoral Research Assistant, Master of Science - MS • Big Data, N/A, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Master of Science - MS • Big Data, N/A at Queen Mary University of LondonVisiting scholar, Visiting scholar at University of CambridgeErasmus Mundus, Double Master Degree's in Distributed Computing, Erasmus Mundus, Double Master Degree's in Distributed Computing at Instituto Superior Técnico
French, Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
blobs10
filter10
normal8
docker8
sublime8
migration8
twitter-api8
hbase7
sublime-text7
twitter7
dbase7
csv7
scala7
common-lisp7
cryptography7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
algarecu/trollslayer
Jan 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 release, 46 commits, 45 pushes in 4 years 8 months
algarecu/hbase-0.94.8-qod
Feb 2015 - Feb 2020
Vector-field consistency model for HBase fine-grained inter-DC replication with Quality-of-Data at CloudCom
Contributions:3 PRs, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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