Iñigo del Portillo, PhD

Staff Software Engineer

Google
Global Network Team
New York, NY

Contact:

mail: inigo.del.portillo<at>gmail<dot>com    
phonephone: (857)-318-5110


Spring 2013 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, USA

Welcome to my personal webpage!

I am currently a Staff Software Engineer at Google, where I work on the Global Network team building control plane software for distributed systems. My work focuses on Software Defined Networking (SDN), traffic engineering, and high-performance data pipelines at planetary scale.

Between 2015 and 2020, I was a PhD candidate working in the System Architecture Lab under the supervision Prof. Ed Crawley at MIT. During my PhD I developed tools and models that aid system designers during the system architecting process. In particular, my research focused on extending global broadband by using spacial and aerial platforms: satellites in geostationary, medium and low Earth orbit; high altitude platforms such as UAVs and ballons; and tethered low altitude platforms. For each of these concepts, I developed end-to-end system models that included RF propagation, atmospheric channel, link budget, power and mass sizing, system dynamics, and costs. Moreover, I used Bayesian Optimization to determine the optimal architecture(s) in terms of performance and cost.

This webpage is meant to be a summary of my past and present research, that I will update every now and then. If you feel our interests align in any way, feel free to shoot me an email.

Here is a PDF version of my CV and you can also check my LinkedIn and Google Scholar.

Thanks for your visit!