David Carrera
CTO, Chairman & Co-Founder at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolDavid Carrera is a technology leader and co-founder with 12+ years of experience bridging academic research and product engineering as CTO and Chairman of NearbyComputing, a platform for automating hybrid, heterogeneous and distributed IT systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has led datacentric and high-performance computing research groups at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he remains an associate professor on extended leave. David combines deep systems research with entrepreneurial execution, translating advanced HPC and stream/data-processing ideas into a commercial orchestration product. He has a track record of building multidisciplinary teams and partnering with industry labs such as IBM Research, bringing rigor in scalable architectures to real-world service automation. Based in Barcelona, he is equally comfortable in research publications and board-level strategy, often surfacing subtle performance and data-placement optimizations that distinguish production-grade distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, Catalan
Github Skills (46)
kubernetes10
charts10
vmware10
bitnami10
helm10
aws8
pool8
combo8
dns-record7
bare-metal7
gcp7
kubernetes-cluster7
ansible7
predictive6
dns6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
servioticy/servioticy-vagrant
Sep 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:137 commits, 37 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
nbycomp/locks
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
Backing storage for Concourse CI pool resource
Contributions:2034 pushes in 9 months
concourse-ciconcoursepoolresource-poolstorage
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