Esteban Collado
Principal Engineer at UnitedHealth Group
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolEsteban Collado is a Principal Engineer based in Dublin with over a decade of hands-on software experience and a 15+ year engineering background rooted in telecommunications and systems work. He combines a generalist’s breadth—spanning research software, architecture, analytics, and production-grade delivery—with a scientist’s curiosity, regularly taking on projects to learn new technologies while driving high-quality outcomes. His career includes technical leadership roles at UnitedHealth Group and Inditex and deep protocol and systems experience from long tenures at Ericsson, Huawei, and Dell EMC. Comfortable moving between prototypes and hardened systems, he excels at translating complex requirements into reliable, deployable solutions and mentoring teams through architecture and delivery trade-offs. An academic foundation in computer engineering and intelligent systems, plus partial physics study, underpins his methodical, measurement-driven approach to problem solving. Notably, he prefers being a flexible generalist rather than a narrow specialist, which enables rapid onboarding and impact across diverse domains.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics (3rd year), Bachelor's degree Physics (3rd year) at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.Advance Studies Diploma, Advance Studies Diploma at Universidade de Vigo
Spanish, English, Galician
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Github Skills (12)
ssh9
docker9
java6
go6
httpurlconnection6
firebase-cloud-messaging6
save6
firebase6
tensorflow6
android6
encoding6
benthos6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
poncos/go-things
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
poncos/ai-things
Aug 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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