Alberto Romero
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Bio
Liam Gallear
I worked with Alberto during his time at HSBC as a Hortonworks contractor. I joined the team that he was already a member of, and he allowed me to draw on his wealth of knowledge to learn the ropes on what I needed to do. He was always had a thorough approach to the issues that he was dealing with, and was professional with his commications with both the team, and internal business customers. I would not hesitate to work with him again, as he was a pleasure to work with.
Manoj Kumar
Alberto joined the team at very initial stage when we have less resource to deliver the nokia project.He is thorough professional with very strong technical skills and has always delivered good quality deliverables on time. he was always flexible to work extended hours in order to meet the target/resolved the issues. He demonstrates great team spirit and believes in sharing knowledge with all team members.He always brought un-ending enthusiasm and new ideas to the table. He built excellent relationship within and outside the team . He is the great colleage and pleasure to work with him . I will look forward to work with him in future.
Liam Gallear
I worked with Alberto during his time at HSBC as a Hortonworks contractor. I joined the team that he was already a member of, and he allowed me to draw on his wealth of knowledge to learn the ropes on what I needed to do. He was always had a thorough approach to the issues that he was dealing with, and was professional with his commications with both the team, and internal business customers. I would not hesitate to work with him again, as he was a pleasure to work with.
Manoj Kumar
Alberto joined the team at very initial stage when we have less resource to deliver the nokia project.He is thorough professional with very strong technical skills and has always delivered good quality deliverables on time. he was always flexible to work extended hours in order to meet the target/resolved the issues. He demonstrates great team spirit and believes in sharing knowledge with all team members.He always brought un-ending enthusiasm and new ideas to the table. He built excellent relationship within and outside the team . He is the great colleage and pleasure to work with him . I will look forward to work with him in future.
Liam Gallear
I worked with Alberto during his time at HSBC as a Hortonworks contractor. I joined the team that he was already a member of, and he allowed me to draw on his wealth of knowledge to learn the ropes on what I needed to do. He was always had a thorough approach to the issues that he was dealing with, and was professional with his commications with both the team, and internal business customers. I would not hesitate to work with him again, as he was a pleasure to work with.
Manoj Kumar
Alberto joined the team at very initial stage when we have less resource to deliver the nokia project.He is thorough professional with very strong technical skills and has always delivered good quality deliverables on time. he was always flexible to work extended hours in order to meet the target/resolved the issues. He demonstrates great team spirit and believes in sharing knowledge with all team members.He always brought un-ending enthusiasm and new ideas to the table. He built excellent relationship within and outside the team . He is the great colleage and pleasure to work with him . I will look forward to work with him in future.
Liam Gallear
I worked with Alberto during his time at HSBC as a Hortonworks contractor. I joined the team that he was already a member of, and he allowed me to draw on his wealth of knowledge to learn the ropes on what I needed to do. He was always had a thorough approach to the issues that he was dealing with, and was professional with his commications with both the team, and internal business customers. I would not hesitate to work with him again, as he was a pleasure to work with.
Manoj Kumar
Alberto joined the team at very initial stage when we have less resource to deliver the nokia project.He is thorough professional with very strong technical skills and has always delivered good quality deliverables on time. he was always flexible to work extended hours in order to meet the target/resolved the issues. He demonstrates great team spirit and believes in sharing knowledge with all team members.He always brought un-ending enthusiasm and new ideas to the table. He built excellent relationship within and outside the team . He is the great colleage and pleasure to work with him . I will look forward to work with him in future.
Credentials
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Cybersecurity
TestDomeJul, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Section4 Certified Product Strategist
Section4May, 2021- Sep, 2024 -
Certified Apache 2.x Hadoop Administrator
HortonworksSep, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
Red Hat Certified in Infrastructure-as-a-Service with OpenStack Cloud Platform
Red HatApr, 2014- Sep, 2024 -
EMC Certified Technical Architect - VNX
EMCSep, 2013- Sep, 2024 -
EMC Certified Storage Administrator - Symmetrix VMAX/DMX
EMCJul, 2013- Sep, 2024 -
EMC Certified Technical Architect - NetWorker Backup and Recovery
EMCMar, 2011- Sep, 2024 -
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Red HatSep, 2007- Sep, 2024 -
NETg Solaris System Administrator
NETgJan, 2007- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Humn.ai
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United States
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Individual and Family Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Chief Technology Officer
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Jan 2018 - Present
CTO & Co-founder of HUMN.ai - Real time streaming analytics and AI/ML based risk exposure prediction for mobility CTO & Co-founder of HUMN.ai - Real time streaming analytics and AI/ML based risk exposure prediction for mobility
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G-Research
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United Kingdom
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Capital Markets
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700 & Above Employee
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Big Data Architect
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Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Big Data Architect for leading quantitative hedge fund Big Data Architect for leading quantitative hedge fund
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Lloyds Banking Group
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Big Data Architect
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Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
• Design of the Big Data infrastructures for the bank ◦ High and Low Level Design of architecture ◦ Definition & enforcement of best practices for YARN multi-tenancy ◦ Security design including Kerberos, AD/LDAP integration & Ranger ◦ High Availability and DR through Falcon for HDFS and Hive metadata replication, HBase asynchronous replication and Kafka MirrorMaker • Work on implementing the use cases ◦ CRS-Payments (Group) ▪ Built Storm topologies in Java to ingest Payments data from an internal MQ system into Kafka, to upsert into HBase ▪ Hive Streaming with Storm using Hive ACID (transactional) tables. ▪ Implementation and configuration of Solr Cloud for log indexing ◦ Digital (Group) ▪ Flume ingestion of logs from digital services (mobile/web) into a Kafka sink to persist into HDFS. ◦ Cyber (Group) ▪ Syslog ingestion through multiple sources via Flume into Kafka ▪ Python Spark streaming from Kafka into HDFS and Hive tables. ▪ Contributed code into the spark-streaming-kafka library to allow it to work with security (Kerberos) via the PLAINTEXTSASL protocol ◦ Markets ▪ PySpark application for analytics on stock data from Kafka. ▪ Custom made HBase API interface to persist the extracted data and results. Show less
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Hortonworks
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Big Data Technical Architect
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Oct 2013 - Jan 2017
Architecture design of Modern Big Data Architectures across Financial Services customers. Architecture design of Modern Big Data Architectures across Financial Services customers.
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HSBC
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Big Data Architect
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Oct 2013 - Sep 2015
• Design of the Data Lake architecture for the bank worldwide ◦ Produced Hadoop architecture design and presented to C-Level stakeholders ◦ Design of User Access to Hadoop services based on group schemas ◦ Implementation of security by introducing: ▪ Kerberos authentication, LDAP and Active Directory integration ▪ Ranger Security policies (first implementation worldwide). ▪ Encryption at rest development design with HDFS TDE ◦ HDFS, HBase, Hive and YARN performance tuning ◦ Kafka, Storm and Spark development for streaming applications ◦ Design, Installation and Configuration of ElasticSearch • Data Flow Design & Implementation ◦ Hive data ingestion via Sqoop from DB2, iSeries, Oracle & Sybase ◦ Hive design/optimisation (ORC/Avro format, indexes, partitions, buckets) ◦ HBase integration with Hive tables for low-latency access ◦ Development of Java HBase REST API data models ◦ Development of Kafka data ingestion and Storm Java topologies for real-time processing of financial data • Use cases ◦ Fraud Detection & Anti-money laundering ◦ Capital Financing deal search ◦ Relationship Manager / Portfolio Management solution ◦ Dashboard for profitability reporting ◦ Real-Time alerts for client activity Show less
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Amlin plc
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United Kingdom
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Insurance
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100 - 200 Employee
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Storage and Systems Architect
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Jan 2012 - Oct 2013
Technical Architect for all EMC storage related duties including Data Protection Design through access profiles and business requirements (RPOs and RTOs), Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Storage Capacity Planning. Design and Implementation of Private Cloud infrastructure based upon VMWare 5 and VNX SAN storage supporting SQL and Progress database servers used for analysis of Big Data. Technical Architect for all EMC storage related duties including Data Protection Design through access profiles and business requirements (RPOs and RTOs), Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Storage Capacity Planning. Design and Implementation of Private Cloud infrastructure based upon VMWare 5 and VNX SAN storage supporting SQL and Progress database servers used for analysis of Big Data.
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Nokia
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Finland
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Data and Systems Engineer
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Sep 2010 - Jan 2012
• Support and administration of the old EMC storage infrastructure : - Symmetrix DMX 3 & VMAX - Business Continuity through SRDF, TimeFinder and BCVs - CLARiiON CX4 - NAS administration of Celerra boxes - DataDomain virtual tape libraries and NAS server - Archiving management with Centera - Storage virtualization using Invista • Support and administration of the HDS storage infrastructure: - High-end USP-V and VSP storage - Mid-range AMS arrays - Business Continuity through TrueCopy and ShadowImage - HNAS (BlueArc NAS rebranded) deployment and administration - SAN zoning and configuration (Cisco fabric) - Scripting and reporting • Project work: - Helping out with the migration from EMC to HDS kit Show less
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Citibank
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Engineer
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Mar 2010 - Jul 2010
- Migration of 2,500 clients to a new Legato NetWorker infrastructure based on Solaris 10 servers, EDL storage and IBM tape libraries - Implementation of new backup datazone to allocate new clients - Scripting to integrate processes (perl, shell) - Layout of plan to improve the global backup infrastructure - Migration of 2,500 clients to a new Legato NetWorker infrastructure based on Solaris 10 servers, EDL storage and IBM tape libraries - Implementation of new backup datazone to allocate new clients - Scripting to integrate processes (perl, shell) - Layout of plan to improve the global backup infrastructure
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MTI
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Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
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1 - 100 Employee
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Data Systems Technical Engineer
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Jan 2008 - Mar 2010
• Design of storage infrastructure for customers including NAS, NDMP, SAN, network, disk libraries (EMC Disk Libraries), tape libraries (ADIC). • Implementation of backup software (Legato Networker 7.3.x, 7.4.x, EDL software) and integration with all environments: UNIX, Linux and Windows • Design of data flow, capacity planning, configuration (groups, pools, clients, etc) • Customer support of solution implemented • Workshops with customers • Promoted to Technical Lead (L3) for project with EMC and Capgemini [Sept 2008 - current] • Complete re-design and implementation of the backup and recovery infrastructure for Capgemini’s SABRE network (30 big customers including Aviva, Schneider, Edward Jones and Virgin Trains) • Responsible for all the scripting in the environment (Perl, bash and Python) • Being a main point of contact and reference for all the technical decisions and strategies followed • Providing with L3/L4 support for highly escalated issues • Disaster recoveries for the customers completed successfully (documentation, plan and execution) • Other duties include: • Design of the storage and backup architecture from scratch for: • L’Oreal: Windows environment with HP Tape library • BAA: Very extensive mixed environment (Solaris and Windows) involving many different data centers and CLARiiON storage. • SEGA: Debian Linux environment integrated with CLARiiON and SnapImage (first known environment to be successfully implemented and supported with this OS). • Analysis and consulting of various storage environments for Blue Arrow, AIG, Societe Generale, Watson Wyatt, Parson Brickenhoff to improve their backup strategies and re-design part of their storage infrastructure Show less
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EMC Computer Systems
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Germany
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Retail
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Technical Support Engineer
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Jul 2006 - Jan 2008
• Support for the Legato/Networker backup administration tool to medium and big companies. • Assistance in high risk situations: lost of critical information, fix of backup systems, help in environment configuration (including network, jukeboxes, tapes, operating systems, etc). • Support for SAN environments • Replication and virtualization with VMWare. • Involved with other technologies: clusters, NAS, tape libraries, databases. • Direct communication with customers. • Support for the Legato/Networker backup administration tool to medium and big companies. • Assistance in high risk situations: lost of critical information, fix of backup systems, help in environment configuration (including network, jukeboxes, tapes, operating systems, etc). • Support for SAN environments • Replication and virtualization with VMWare. • Involved with other technologies: clusters, NAS, tape libraries, databases. • Direct communication with customers.
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BBVA
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Spain
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Banking
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1 - 100 Employee
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UNIX System Administrator
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Feb 2004 - Jan 2006
• Installation and configuration of Linux (Red Hat, Debian, SuSE and Gentoo) and Solaris (8 and 9) servers. • Backup process implementation and administration. • Responsible for administration of Apache webservers, Postfix and Qmail mailservers and Squid proxy servers; adding new users, checking the traces and logs to recover them in case they were down, etc. • Installation and configuration of networking applications (CVS, subversion, mambo, etc) and Linux updates (kernel and software). • Programming bash and Perl scripts for Linux systems monitoring. • Configuring network hardware (switches, hubs and routers). • Giving support to customers and solving incidences on their servers (Linux and Solaris), either by telephone or face to face. • Programming a hardware diagnostic module for a project for the Science and Education Spanish Ministry. That module was able to format, make partitions and recover information of hard disks, and showed specific data of memory and cpu. Show less
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Education
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2001 - 2006
Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Computer Engineering, Systems and Communications
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