Eric Palacios
Data Engineer
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Palacios is a seasoned Data Engineer with 14 years’ experience building and optimizing large-scale Hadoop ecosystems, search infrastructure and ML-driven pipelines from Barcelona. An early adopter of Hadoop (since 2007), he led the Pangool project and has repeatedly reduced processing times and storage costs by redesigning pipelines, introducing Avro/ORC/Parquet and in-memory data structures. At Trovit he architected production systems that scaled to hundreds of millions of queries, improved ad ROI via novel ranking algorithms, and generated content for 24M personalized mails daily. Currently at XING, he specializes in performance, scalability and optimization problems, pairing algorithmic rigor with pragmatic engineering. Outside work he applies his maker mindset to modding analog synthesizers and playing piano, reflecting a blend of technical creativity and systems-level thinking.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
English, Spanish, Catalan, French
Github Skills (31)
avro10
tuple10
mapreduce10
perl10
java10
api10
csharp10
dotnet9
json9
python9
ruby9
kafka-connector9
php9
hadoop8
data-serialization8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
datasalt/pangool
Oct 2011 - Jul 2012
Tuple MapReduce for Hadoop: Hadoop API made easy
Contributions:353 commits in 9 months
apituplemapreducehadoopjava
epalace/flood
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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