Pablo Arteaga is a London-based Software Engineer with six years of experience bridging industry and research, currently building production-grade systems at Bloomberg LP. He combines a strong academic foundation (First Class Honours in Software Engineering from the University of Glasgow) with hands-on experience in data-intensive and security-focused projects. Notably, he contributed a production security plugin to the widely used Trino distributed SQL engine, integrating Open Policy Agent for fine-grained access control and adding system tests to validate behavior. Comfortable across the stack, Pablo has experience with C++, Qt, Hibernate, Solr/Lucene and modern CI practices, and he thrives in teams that value robust, extensible designs. Colleagues know him for quickly adapting to complex codebases and turning research-led ideas into deployable solutions.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachillerato, Sciences, Matrícula de Honor (10/10), Bachillerato, Sciences, Matrícula de Honor (10/10) at Colegio Hispano Inglés
Software Engineering, Software Engineering, With Honours of the First class, Software Engineering, Software Engineering, With Honours of the First class at The University of Glasgow
Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Contributions:51 reviews, 5 PRs, 71 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Pablo primarily focused on implementing a security plugin for Trino. Their work involved creating the `OpaAccessControl` class, integrating with Open Policy Agent (OPA) for access control, and defining various security checks. This included implementing methods for checking user impersonation, query execution, system information access, and access to catalog resources. The user also added system tests to validate the behavior of the security features.
Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 8 months
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