About Guillermo

I am a dad and back end software developer, always thrilled to discover new ways to process large amounts of information

I graduated in December 2010 from the masters program at the computer science department which is part of the school of natural sciences at the University of Texas Austin. I obtained my bachelors in science degree from the computer science department at the University of Texas - Pan American. At several instances during and prior to my undergraduate education I did some work with IBM both in Silicon Valley and Austin locations, where my work spanned across many levels, from application to kernel level development focusing on database systems and cloud. I was selected by the Indo-US Science & Technology Forum to participate in a research project at HP Labs in Bangalore, India, which focused on eye tracking and user profiling. I did work on Machine Learning before AI was cool (circa 2010), my research project was on sentiment analysis using Semi Supervised learning approach.

Interests

• Database systems (Efficient storage, querying, indexing)
• Big data (Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark)
• Mobile computing (wireless sensor networks, iOS, Android)
• Quantified Self

Random stuff

• 1 of 75 students selected to participate in Google Grad CS Forum
• I was an amateur bullfighter a few years ago and was helping 1 of 3 bullfighting schools in USA
• Presented to former IBM CEO (Sam Palmisano) back in 2010

• Part of Workday’s IPO on NYSE in 2012.
• Danced with Salsa Champion (Bindu Prasana) from India in 2009

• Developed a mobile app for the bullfighting world, we had 15000+ unique users and 92000+ sessions for iOS application in 1 year

Have lived in

• Surat, Gujarat (India)
• Chiang Mai (Thailand)
• Austin, Texas (USA)
• St. Petersburg, (Russian Federation)
• Pleasanton, California (USA)
• San Jose, California (USA)
• Queretaro, (Mexico)
• Salamanca (Spain)
• Bangalore (India)
• Edinburg, Texas (USA)
• Normal, Illinois (USA)

When I am not working I am usually:

• Playing with my super cute daughter
• Working on side projects dealing with Wellness and Technology
• Trying to play the guitar