Roberto Barreda

MIDOKURA is a Sony Group company that delivers innovative solutions to power the Edge AI revolution in IoT.

Achievements:

As a member of the AI Integrations team, I have been leading the team that facilitates the integrations of third-party AI models and WASM applications into the AITRIOS platform and their delivery to edge devices, facilitating adoption of the platform by improving the overall user experience.

Technologies used:

• Python
• Kubernetes

Netskope’s Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) isolates uncategorized and risky websites. Uses a zero trust approach to web browsing, using physical separation to ensure safe browsing.

Achievements:

Working in the RBI team, I played an important role:

• Designing and developing the orchestration and configuration engine.
• Improving reliability of critical components, making them highly available.
• Enhancing the observability and traceability of the overall microservices.
• Boosting the documentation and automation of processes by bringing new for a better understanding and communication between stakeholders.

Technologies used:

• Golang
• Python
• Kubernetes

Platform.sh is a unified, secure, enterprise-grade platform for building, running and scaling fleets of websites and applications (PaaS) that enables organizations to build, iterate, and responsibly scale their applications with zero time managing infrastructure.

Achievements:

As part of the Core team, I have work in:

• Design and develop new features regarding observability of the platform.
• Standardize coding conventions across multiple projects.
• Port legacy code and critical internal libraries from python2 to python3.
• Coordination with Ops and Customer Support teams to follow-up production issues.

Technologies used:

• Python
• Golang
• SQL
• LXC
• Git

Clevernet’s patented WAN solution uses multiple optimal connections simultaneously to boost WAN performance. Our approach ensures a more effective use of your paid bandwidth and increases the security of your data in motion

Achievements:

As the first senior engineer in the company:

• I worked defining best practices and procedures to maximize the quality and productivity of the team.
• Design, Build, Test, Deploy and Monitor the overall platform.
• Evaluation of technologies and tools.
• Communication and mentoring.

Technologies used:

• Python
• Ansible
• MQTT
• IPsec
• Postgres

Careesma develops and operates job board websites with +6 million of unique visitors and +1 million of emails sent per month in multiple markets (India, Austria and Poland).

Achievements:

• Ported legacy PHP/C++ application to modern Python.
• Simplified onboarding for new jobseekers.
• Improve performance and reliability.

Technologies used:

• Python
• Solr
• Mysql

Qustodio is the free parental control and internet monitoring software that provides advanced detection and monitoring features.

Achievements:

As a member of the initial engineering team, I was involved with every aspect of the development, from the technical design of the features to the implementation, promotion to production, administration and server monitoring for the following services:

• Data gathering and processing (ETL).
• REST API that provides support for the parents' dashboard and desktop application.
• Alert and notification system.

Technologies used:

• Python
• PHP
• Hadoop
• Mysql

Involved in the design and development of the following projects for a well-known antivirus company.

Achievements:

• Client-side library that provides the communication with different cloud protection and security services.
• Phishing/Malware protection cloud service for web browsing. Uses heuristics to prevent and detect new and unknown threats.
• Web application for remote administration of antivirus installed on the stations of an organization.

Technologies used:

• C++
• C#
• Mysql

As a research assistant in the CBA (Broadband Communications Research Group, a multidisciplinary research group focused on areas related to broadband networks and broadband services)

Achievements:

I was involved in the development of several projects to measure the QoS of any network: NetMeter, OreNETa and EuQoS.

Technologies used:

• C++
• Qt
• XML/XSLT
• QoS