Summary
Santiago Vargas is a systems engineer and PhD-trained researcher with 11 years of experience optimizing TCP, HTTP, web, and video performance to improve user Quality of Experience. He blends academic rigor from Stony Brook's NetSys lab with production experience at Meta and Cloudflare, where he has built TCP datacenter simulation frameworks, deployed live TCP experiment pipelines, and worked on bot management. Comfortable in C++, Python, NS-3, and ML toolchains, he excels at identifying and removing performance bottlenecks across networks and distributed systems. A strong communicator and educator who has taught graduate networks and algorithms, he pairs deep measurement-driven insight with pragmatic engineering to move research into production.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Stony Brook University Graduate School
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.986/4.0, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.986/4.0 at Molloy College
English, Spanish