Alberto Cuesta Cañada

complex systems researcher and computer programmer

Curriculum Vitae

Here you can find my curriculum vitae. It has been compiled with latex and it is based in a tex template by Matthew Boedicker with modifications by David J. Grant and Todd C. Miller. You can download the .pdf resume and also the .tex sources.

Alberto Cuesta
49 Walford Road
Hackney N16 8EF
London, UK
 
0 7942 633361 (phone)
mail@albertocuesta.es
http://www.albertocuesta.es
Work Experience
Royal Bank of Scotland
High Performance Computing Operator
London, UK
June 2008 - Now

Support and development of around one hundred of DataSynapse grids, using more than 6000 windows and linux hosts. Focus on reliability, responsibility and teamwork.

Triaging and rational troubleshooting of grid application failures. Engagement with specialized teams each with their own area of expertise to delegate or escalate issues. Disaster prevention and recovery, including events as the loss of full datacenters. On-call support experience.

Optimization of resource utilization through resource sharing and harvesting, n one year we managed to use the computer power of around 10000 desktops with minimal issues.

Maintenance of good relationships with a large number of infrastructure, development and non-technical teams to ensure an efficient collaboration. We ensured tat our daily activities would promote an image of reliability an efficiency, to facilitate the grid estate to grow and become more useful

Experience in evolution and standardization of large environments to drive down the maintenance costs. We managed to install the same security configuration, monitoring and software versions over thousands of machines of diverse origins. Procedures were routinely created to streamline our daily activities and those of the teams that we would delegate to.

Excelian Ltd.
Grid Analyst
London, UK
Feb. 2008 - Now

Architected and developed part of the Excelian Grid On Demand Framework, comprising 30 remote machines runing SOlaris and Linux. My area was the virtual image automated management and allocation, which I created using VirtualBox and Python.

Researched new technologies for its marketability to clients, including DataSynapse 5.1, Star-P and CUDA.

Instituto Tecnológico de Informática
Analyst/Developer
Valencia, Spain
May. 2007 - Now

Worked on the analysis and development of several commercial projects.

Instituto Tecnológico de Informática
Research Assistant
Valencia, Spain
Nov. 2005 - Apr. 2007

Maintained and documented dr-ea-m, a Java massively distributed computing platform.

Built and maintained a eight-machine linux computing cluster and system services for my research group.

Researched on complex systems, graph theory and evolutionary computing, with published results in English and Spanish.

Education
Polytechnic University of Valencia
Parallel and Distributed Computing MSc.
Valencia, Spain
Sep. 2006 - Sep. 2007

Parallel Computing with C and MPI, Grid Computing with Globus, Distributed and P2P Computing with Java. Good understanding of multithreading programming and scalability techniques.

Polytechnic University of Valencia
Computer Science Engineering
Valencia, Spain
Sep. 1998 - Aug. 2005

Specialized in artificial intelligence and bio-inspired computation. Broad knowledge of programming languages and computing theory.

Skills
High Performance Computing: DataSynapse, VirtualBox, Ganglia, Globus, GigaSpaces.
Programming Languages: Java, Python, HTML, JavaScript, C, Bourne Shell.
Java Programing: NetBeans, Spring, Hibernate, Swing.
Operating Systems: Windows and Linux, on several flavours.
Tools: Eclipse, Django, Joomla, Trac.
Languages: English and Spanish to a bilingual level, fluent Italian, notions of French and Catalan.
Miscellaneous: Excellent problem solving and communication skills. Basic training in Quantitative Finance, including Black-Scholes and Montecarlo model.
Publications
"Tipado fuerte y preselección de variables en el problema de la predicción de quiebra empresarial mediante programación genética", II Congreso Español de Informática, CEDI'07 (2nd author).
"Análisis de la topología de una red newscast", II Congreso Español de Informática, CEDI'07.
"Nadeweb: Nuevos algoritmos distribuidos y evolutivos en la web", Actualidad TIC (ISSN: 1696-5876), (12):9-11, May 2007 (2nd Author).
"Aprendizaje automático con programación genética", Actas del V Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'07) (4th author).
"Implementación de algoritmos distribuidos para un entorno de distribucón epémica", Actas del V Congreso Español sobre Metaheurísticas, Algoritmos Evolutivos y Bioinspirados (MAEB'07).
"Building hyper-heuristics through ant colony optimization for the 2D bin packing problem", Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 9th International Conference, KES 2005.