I was born in Pamplona, a small town in the north of Spain. Maybe you have heard about my hometown because every year, 8 days of July, we hold the running of the bulls event during the Sanfermines, a folkloric event that transforms the city into the party capital of the world. Before you ask, I have never run in front of a bull nor do I have intentions of doing it in the future.

In 2008 I moved to Barcelona to study a double simultaneous degree in Telecommunications and Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia – BarcelonaTech. I enjoyed engineering so much that after my third year I decided to complement my formation by also enrolling in Electronics Engineering. These triple-major studies with a focus on telecommunications gave me a wide understanding of how communication systems work, from the tiniest transistor to complex spectrum management policies and protocols.

During that period I collaborated on several projects within the university that exposed me to the field of space communications. I worked as the System Integrator of the ³Cat project directed by Professors Eduard Alarcon and Adriano Camps — a CubeSat with educational and technology demonstration purposes. I also participated in the Android Beyond the Stratosphere (ABS) project, funded with a Google Research Award, studying the viability of low-cost satellites using commercial off-the-shelf components from mobile phones. Finally, I had two summer internships in Germany: Procter & Gamble and GKN Landsystems.

I wrote my undergraduate thesis in the System Architecture Lab at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Edward Crawley and Dr. Bruce Cameron. During my thesis I developed computational tools to model NASA's space communications network to explore different architectures for their future space-based network. After that 11-month stay I decided to pursue a PhD in System Architecture with a focus on Space Communications. I was admitted in 2015 and received my PhD in 2020.

After completing my PhD, I joined SES Satellites as an Adaptive Resource Control Engineer, where I developed software to optimally allocate resources across satellite constellations. In 2022 I joined Google, where I currently work as a Staff Software Engineer 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.

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