Research Scientist Level III
2010 - 2015Xerox PARC- Submitted 12 patent applications (1 awarded so far) in the areas of automated business process management, data privacy management, data analysis, and distributed middleware.
- Led a project team (5 people) to design and prototype a scalable cloud analytics platform for the IT Outsourcing group at Xerox.
- Worked on a contribution to the Apache Hive open source project to extend functionality for large scale joins.
- Finalist in Services Cup contest of the IEEE International Conference on Service Computing (SCC), 2012, with Automating Reusable Workflow Development from design to instantiation.
- Successfully demoed, at a Xerox client symposium, a hybrid cloud workflow using 1000+ processors over 3 cloud sites.
Technologies: Apache Hive, Apache Pig, MapReduce, Hadoop, HBase, JavaGraduate Assistant and Post-doc
2005 - 2010Rutgers University- Received Academic Excellence Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
- Contributed to the creation of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing, serving as Industrial Advisory Board Chair in 2012.
- Contributed to the design and early development of CometCloud (http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/CometCloud), a virtual computational cloud infrastructure that integrates local computational environments and public cloud services on-demand.
- Co-chaired the Doctoral Symposium at the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2009, 2010).
- Created a distributed clustering algorithm running on a peer to peer network that scaled to thousands of nodes.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Java
Andres Quiroz
Big Data Developer in San Jose, CA, United States
Member since February 22, 2016
Andres is a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, graduated from Rutgers University, who specializes in autonomic computing, cloud computing, and large-scale distributed systems. He has research and development experience in data analytics, cloud resource management, and middleware, with particular expertise in Java, C++, and Android.
Andres is now available for hire
Portfolio
- Xerox PARCApache Hive, Apache Pig, MapReduce, Hadoop, HBase, Java
- Rutgers UniversityAmazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon EC2, Java
Experience
- Java 15 years
- Distributed Programming 10 years
- Big Data 5 years
- Hadoop 5 years
- MapReduce 5 years
- Machine Learning 2 years
- Android 2 years
- Analytics 2 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
GitHub, IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans
The most amazing...
...collection I have is a library of over ten years' worth of reusable Java code I've created for various projects and continue to use to this day.
Employment
Experience
- Java Programming 5 Libraryhttps://github.com/aquirozsea/programming5
Programming utility library containing reusable Java code to wrap and/or extend basic classes of the Java API.
- Comet Cloud
Initial contributor to the Comet Cloud project, which is an autonomic framework for enabling real-world applications on dynamically federated, hybrid infrastructure integrating (public & private) clouds, data-centers and Grids. Built DHT and messaging layers on which Comet Cloud is based.
Skills
Languages
Java, C++, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, XMLFrameworks
HadoopParadigms
MapReduce, Distributed Programming, Agile Software DevelopmentLibraries/APIs
Java RMI, jQueryPlatforms
Apache Pig, Amazon EC2, Linux, NetBeans, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AndroidStorage
Apache Hive, NoSQL, JSON, HBase, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQLOther
Big Data, Machine Learning, AnalyticsTools
IntelliJ IDEA, GitHub
Education
- M.Sc./Ph.D. Degree in Computer Engineering2005 - 2010Rutgers University - New Jersey
- B.Sc. Degree in Computer Engineering1998 - 2004Eafit University - Medellin, Colombia
