Rodolfo Oliveira
Principal Engineer Reservoir Technology at Equinor
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
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Top SchoolRodolfo Oliveira is a Principal Engineer in Reservoir Technology with 11 years of industry experience, currently on an educational leave while based in Bergen, Norway. He blends deep research pedigree—PhD work at Imperial College London and TU Delft—with hands-on engineering across Schlumberger, Halliburton, Petrobras and Equinor, focusing on reservoir production, characterization and petrophysics. Known for building production-grade plugins and extensions in Python and C++ for subsurface workflows, he bridges advanced geoscience with practical software tooling. At Equinor he has progressed from senior to principal engineering roles, driving technical solutions for complex reservoir problems. His background teaching and early internships hint at a strong aptitude for mentoring and distilling complex concepts for diverse audiences. Outside typical engineer profiles, he pairs rigorous academic research with proven delivery in industrial software for petroleum engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Petroleum Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College LondonPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroTU DelftBachelor of Science - BS, Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Petroleum Engineering at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Oficial)
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (147)
gradient-descent10
python10
octave10
to-do10
numerics10
reservoir10
scientific-computing10
geostatistics10
sensitivity10
geopandas10
numpy10
root-finding10
numba10
opengl10
webgl10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
roliveira/rock-renderer
Jul 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 2 pushes, 1 issue in 3 years 2 months
roliveira/legofy
Nov 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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