Álvaro Villalba
Principal Architect at Nearby Computing
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolÁlvaro Villalba is a Principal Architect and co-founder based in Barcelona with 14 years of experience designing hardware-conscious, low-level software and systems. He combines academic rigor—holding a PhD with Excellent Cum Laude from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—with hands-on engineering at Nearby Computing and research work at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Comfortable across research and product contexts, he authors an open-source C project that began as his undergraduate final project and continues to evolve in his spare time. Known for bridging system-level performance considerations with practical product needs, he brings deep expertise in compilers, runtime behavior and infrastructure. His career reflects a steady progression from system administration and development roles into strategic technical leadership and startup building.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, Catalan, English
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Github Skills (30)
kubernetes10
docker10
scheduling10
go10
kubernetes-monitoring9
mesos9
java-bindings6
jsinterop5
java-bytecode5
gwt5
authentication5
hydra5
intel5
sarif4
java4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
servioticy/servioticy-datamodel
Jan 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 55 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 4 months
nbycomp/nearbyone-examples
May 2022 - Oct 2023
Contributions:13 reviews, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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