Summary
Ulises Beresi is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating scalable, production-grade systems across distributed databases, streaming monitoring stacks, and cloud services. Currently at Booking.com and formerly on DataStax’s core and graph teams, he has deep expertise in core database internals, multi-instance deployments, hot-reloading security configuration, and benchmarking for vertical scalability. His background spans from building real-time stream-processing tooling at Cloudant to migrating large batch workloads to Hadoop and applying ML for matching at Amazon, reflecting a strong blend of systems engineering and applied research. With an MPhil in Computer Science and a history of developing low-level libraries and operator-focused tooling, he brings both academic rigor and pragmatic operational empathy to complex engineering problems. Notably, he has consistently worked on improving the operator experience—automating cluster creation, replacing legacy metric relays, and enabling safer runtime upgrades.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at The Robert Gordon University
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Computer Science, Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Spanish, English