Summary
Dario Pena is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience bridging embedded systems and large-scale database engineering, currently contributing to Oracle's RDBMS with a focus on performance, availability, and low-level systems design. A fourth-year Computer Engineering student at UT Austin, he has led safety-critical embedded architecture for hyperloop vehicles and served as RAS leader, blending robotics and real-time systems expertise. He completed back-to-back software internships at Amazon and now applies that cloud-scale and systems mindset to distributed database work. Comfortable across firmware, concurrency, and advanced algorithms, Dario pairs industrial electronics roots with production-grade software practice—an uncommon combo that helps him optimize both silicon-adjacent systems and high-throughput server software.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin