Summary
David Gureya is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 12 years of experience bridging research-grade distributed systems and production cloud infrastructure. He holds a dual PhD from KTH and Instituto Superior Técnico and an MSc in Distributed Computing, and his doctoral work focused on resource allocation for data-intensive cloud services. At Spacemetric he applies that expertise to cloud and edge processing for satellite imagery and near–real-time video pipelines, combining backend systems engineering with infrastructure management. His background includes research roles building elasticity controllers, workload prediction and online ML for SLO-driven systems, giving him a strong footing in performance-aware, data-intensive architectures. Known for moving ideas from prototype to production, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering across both cloud and edge environments.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Distributed Computing, Master's Degree, Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, First Class Honours at University of Nairobi
Master's Degree, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, 17/20, Master's Degree, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, 17/20 at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Swahili, rendille