Summary
Ernesto Coto is a Principal Developer with over a decade of experience building and leading engineering teams across research and industry, currently focused on eComms surveillance and formerly driving DevOps and support for large-scale medical imaging platforms. He blends deep research roots—PhD-level work and years at Oxford VGG on large-scale visual search, classification and face/text recognition—with hands-on product delivery in cloud, Kubernetes and GPU/cluster environments. Ernesto has steered cross-border projects and audits, migrated petabyte-scale medical datasets into Azure, and translated research prototypes into production-grade microservices and regulated medical software. Comfortable across C++, Java, Python, MATLAB and modern infra tools, he is equally at home writing core algorithms for visualization and building the DevOps pipelines that keep them running. A pragmatic leader who still codes, he maintains open-source work from his VGG contributions and personal repos, and often surfaces useful automation and data-analysis scripts that streamline team workflows.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Universidad Central de Venezuela
English, Spanish, French