Summary
Roberto Expósito is an Associate Professor and researcher with eight years of professional experience specializing in parallel and distributed programming for HPC and Big Data frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, and Flink. He combines deep academic expertise—holding a PhD and a Master in High Performance Computing—with practical R&D on low-latency Java/C communication middleware over RDMA and message-passing in cluster and cloud environments. His work spans cloud virtualization, HPC-in-the-cloud deployments, and hands-on Linux HPC cluster administration, bridging theory and production. Roberto has progressed through roles from research fellowships to a visiting researcher in Mannheim and now leads teaching and research at Universidade da Coruña. Beyond publications, he brings a systems-focused mindset that emphasizes efficient cross-language communication and realistic deployment of high-performance data processing pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Universidad de A Coruna
English, Spanish, Galician