Mario Cao
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Experience
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SEDA
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Switzerland
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head of Research & Principal Engineer
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Feb 2022 - Present
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Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
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Spain
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postgraduate Lecturer
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Sep 2019 - Present
Master in technologies of the financial sector: Fintech Master in technologies of the financial sector: Fintech
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Witnet Foundation
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Spain
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
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Jun 2018 - Nov 2021
- Transversal support to different areas (technical leadership, team management, research and development).- Responsible for managing a fast-paced development process based on agile methodologies.- Research on cryptography, consensus algorithms, reputation systems and peer-to-peer protocols.- Design, definition and development of the Witnet protocol, i.e. a decentralized oracle network protocol.- Software development: Blockchain (Bitcoin, Ethereum), Backend (Rust) and Frontend (React, Javascript). Show less
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BNP Paribas Fortis
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Belgium
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Tech Lead / Scrum Master (Consultant)
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Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
- Support to BNPPF with their internal and external exploration efforts by accelerating innovation projects. - Design and build Proof-of-Concepts, Prototypes and MVPs by using cutting-edge technologies. - Collaborate in the integration of third-party service providers and Fintech startups. - Responsible for managing a fast-paced development process by using agile methodologies (Scrum). - Software architecture analysis and design to meet security, legal and compliance requirements. - Software development: Blockchain (Hyperledger, Ethereum), Backend (Java Sprint Boot, NodeJS, PostgreSQL) and Mobile Applications (React, Redux, GraphQL). Show less
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Wemanity Group
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France
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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200 - 300 Employee
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Tech Lead at WeHack
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Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
- Technical leadership in the creation and definition of a software consultancy company. - Mission of building small IT teams leveraging on agile methodologies, Software Craftsmanship and DevOps. - Continuous learning by organizing trainings and fostering the tech community (katas, hackathons, meetups, talks, ...) - Technical leadership in the creation and definition of a software consultancy company. - Mission of building small IT teams leveraging on agile methodologies, Software Craftsmanship and DevOps. - Continuous learning by organizing trainings and fostering the tech community (katas, hackathons, meetups, talks, ...)
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RHEA Group
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Belgium
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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400 - 500 Employee
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Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
- Security Software Engineer participating in international projects for ESA and satellite company.- State of the Art analysis of the security in the Internet of Things (IoT) and Lightweight Cryptography.- Security Risk Assessment using methodology HTRA.- Research on Blockchain Technologies and their applicability over IoT ecosystems.- Design and development of a Proof-of-Concept of based on Blockchain Hyperledger (Docker, Node.js, Golang).
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May 2015 - Dec 2016
- Software Engineer participating in projects for the European Space Agency (ESA).- Responsible for the software design and development of test framework tools in the next European Ground Systems Common Core (EGS-CC).- Software design and development of a test management system integrating several functionalities: requirements management, test design, test execution, report generation, integration with other test framework tools (Java, Eclipse, Plug-in development, Hibernate, SQL/RDBMS).- Software development of test framework tools for component validation and integration (Java, Eclipse, Plug-in development, OSGi). Show less
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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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Spain
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Aug 2010 - Mar 2015
- Software and System Engineer participating in national and European projects with leading responsibilities in the technical design and implementation.- Teaching in postgraduate masters: network security, wireless network audit, communication networks, Internet protocols, Voice over IP.- Software development of network provisioning tools and a web-based data visualization system (Python, Web, Javascript).- Network engineering: network security (VPNs, Wi-Fi audit, Firewalls), network simulation (OPNET, ns-2), L2-L7 network protocols.- Data mining for profiling Internet users and network traffic (Java, IBM SPSS, Matlab). Show less
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Jan 2009 - Dec 2010
- Participation in national and European projects in the field of next generation networks (NGNs).- Software development of SIP-based services and applications (Java, SQL, JSP)- Software development of remote management and monitoring system (Bash).- Network engineering: architecture design, configuration and deployment of NGN communication infrastructure.
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Telefónica
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Spain
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineering Intern
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Nov 2005 - May 2006
Internship at Telefónica I+D (Research and Development) - Compatibility study of routing protocols between Cisco routers and software-based implementations (Quagga). Internship at Telefónica I+D (Research and Development) - Compatibility study of routing protocols between Cisco routers and software-based implementations (Quagga).
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Education
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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Telematic Systems Engineering -
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Master of Advanced Studies, Telematic Engineering -
Universität Stuttgart
Engineer’s Degree, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology -
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Engineer’s Degree, Telecommunication Engineering