Summary
Servio Palacios is a Fulbright alumnus and Ph.D. computer scientist who combines 11+ years of hands-on engineering with executive leadership as CEO of Mayan Mind, building AI, confidential computing, and secure distributed systems for agriculture, fintech, and education. He bridges academia, government (NASA/JPL), and industry—having led a NASA-funded secure graph-database project and presented research at VLDB and JPL—while founding practical initiatives like IoT4Kids and AGAPECert. His technical footprint spans graph databases, distributed systems, applied cryptography, and blockchain, including building TruenoDB on Spark/GraphX and contributions to auditable, privacy-preserving computation. As a strategist he wins competitive R&D funding, directs multidisciplinary teams, and translates research into deployable PoCs and products. Not obvious from the title: he pairs deep systems design with proposal-writing and observability/CI-CD operational work, enabling end-to-end delivery from grant to production. Based in West Lafayette, he focuses on secure, ethical, and scalable tech that has measurable impact across mission-critical and resource-constrained environments.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Fulbright Pre-academic Program, English Language and Literature, General, 4.0, Fulbright Pre-academic Program, English Language and Literature, General, 4.0 at St. John's University
Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, 4.0 at Foro Europeo Escuela de Negocios de Navarra
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Purdue University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.7, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.7 at Universidad Tecnológica Centroamericana
Spanish, English