Santiago Saavedra
Staff Software Engineer at Trackula
Earth, Texas, Spain
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Top SchoolSantiago Saavedra is a staff software engineer and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building distributed, privacy-aware systems and AI-driven products, currently focused on wind-farm layout simulation and ClickHouse performance work. He blends deep academic training (PhD-level work in formal verification and theoretical CS) with hands-on leadership across startups and consultancies, having led architecture and multi-tenant security at BCG X and driven product convergence through to Series A at Apiday. A longtime Free Software advocate and co-founder of privacy-focused Trackula, he combines expertise in distributed systems, formal methods, and ML/NLP with practical skills in Scala, Python, cloud-native architectures, and CI/CD automation. Notably, he works on Byzantine-consistent, verifiable systems and enjoys projects that don’t fit in RAM, reflecting a rare mix of algebraic/formal thinking and pragmatic performance engineering.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Study Institute Marktoberdorf (ASIMOD2015) Theoretical Computer Science, Advanced Study Institute Marktoberdorf (ASIMOD2015) Theoretical Computer Science at Technical University of MunichDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informática, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informática at Universidad Complutense de MadridMaster of Engineering (MEng) Informática, Master of Engineering (MEng) Informática at Universidade da Coruña
Spanish, Galician, English, python, bash, Portuguese
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Github Skills (200)
sus10
solus10
big-data10
kotlin-android10
apache10
headers10
python10
firebase10
r10
scale10
rpm10
makefile10
scala10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
gpul-org/gpul-org.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 push, 2 branches in 6 years
gpullanding-website
ssaavedra/ssaavedra.github.io
Jul 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:56 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 3 months
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