Summary
Luis Otero is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead with a decade of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure performance, systems virtualization, and OS-level optimization. At Oracle he led a 12+ engineer team enabling IaaS for SPARC-based products in the public cloud, building instrumentation for OpenStack Python code and developing system-level performance tools. His deep expertise spans C/C++, Python, Java, Linux and Solaris, with hands-on work reducing virtualization overheads for SPARC Logical Domains and Solaris Kernel Zones and even rewriting kernel networking, scheduler, and memory subsystems. Combining rigorous academic training from Caltech with applied research experience at JPL, he approaches problems top-down, leveraging collaboration and measurement-driven analysis to solve complex performance challenges. Based in California, he brings a pragmatic explorer’s mindset—comfortable in low-level systems work yet focused on delivering scalable, production-ready cloud solutions.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at Universidad Simon Bolivar
M.S., Electrical Engineering, M.S., Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, French