Summary
Diego Montúfar is a technology entrepreneur and CEO with 11 years of experience building Big Data, HPC and cloud-native analytics solutions across retail, banking, insurance and academia in Ecuador and Latin America. As co-founder of handytec he leads the adoption of next-generation BI, real-time analytics and cost-effective predictive models, combining hands-on expertise in Hadoop, Spark, Elasticsearch and modern ML stacks (Python, TensorFlow, R). He holds a First Class Master’s in Information Technology from the University of Melbourne, where he worked on molecular dynamics and epidemic modeling on the IBM Blue Gene/Q, reflecting a rare mix of applied life-sciences research and production analytics. Diego’s background in distributed and high-performance computing informs pragmatic architectures for lakehouse, GenAI and IoT use cases, and he actively bridges research-grade computation with commercial deployments in Latin America.
11 years of coding experience
Systems Engineer, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Systems Engineer, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Universidad de Cuenca
The University of Melbourne
English, Spanish