Samuel Cristobal
Senior Software Engineer at Stealth Startup
Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Cristobal is a Senior Software Engineer based in Spain with a strong mathematical background (MSc in Mathematics) and six years of professional software experience, specializing in Rust since 2020. He has led engineering efforts as founder-CTO at DataBeacon building next-generation distributed air traffic control systems and now contributes to Rust core teams at fintech and metrics database startups. His career blends rigorous research—years as a principal investigator in stochastic graph optimization and computational algebraic geometry—with hands-on systems engineering, giving him an uncommon mix of theoretical depth and production-grade implementation. Comfortable across low-level language design, high-performance databases, and UI/shader experiments in JavaScript, he focuses on keeping CPUs busy and systems predictable at scale. Colleagues benefit from his ability to translate complex stochastic models into efficient, maintainable code and from his habit of exploring playful tooling (shaders) that often yields practical performance insights.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Mathematics, MSc Mathematics at Universidad Autónoma de MadridBSc Hons Mathematics, BSc Hons Mathematics at Universidad Complutense de MadridBEng Communication Systems, BEng Communication Systems at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (60)
programming-language10
javascript10
erlang10
gleam10
compiler10
scalable10
periodic9
typescript9
compile9
neovim9
linker9
cli8
rsi8
telegram-bot8
package8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
scristobal/samu.nvim
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
A launch point for your personal nvim configuration
Contributions:6 PRs, 67 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
scristobal/webgpu-experiments
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Just experimenting with WebGPU API
Contributions:131 reviews, 131 PRs, 263 pushes in 1 year 9 months
glslwebgl2webgpuwgsl
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