Summary
Oscar Tirado is a Staff Software Engineer and PhD-trained computer scientist with a decade of experience building high-performance, parallel and distributed systems for both research and industry. He specializes in extracting insight from Big Data using HPC techniques and cloud-native architectures, and has led modernization efforts for large financial clients and contributed to security-focused platforms like VirusTotal and Google. Comfortable across a polyglot stack (Scala, Kotlin, Java, C/C++, Python and more), he blends deep systems-level performance tuning with pragmatic engineering practices such as observability, feature toggles and blue/green deployment. Proven in team building and technical leadership, he moves between hands-on coding and architecture while mentoring teams on scalability and reliability. An academic-to-industry trajectory underpins his work—he has published and taught while building production-grade distributed analytics on supercomputers and cloud platforms. Based in Málaga, Spain, he pairs rigorous research instincts with a knack for turning complex performance problems into operational solutions.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Sciences at Universidad de Málaga
English, German, Spanish