Nico is an IT researcher and developer with focus on performance and scalability of Data intensive and Web applications. Always looking for new Internet-scale challenges, with interests ranging from Cloud and data-center optimization, to Machine Learning and human-computer interaction. With a mission of advancing open Internet technologies, to make them more reachable, and most importantly, efficient to host and operate.
Currently leading an open source research project (ALOJA) on upcoming architectures for data processing at the Barcelona Super Computing (BSC) and Microsoft Research joint center (http://www.bscmsrc.eu/). Previously has been involved in different Web and communication...