Alex Cuadrón

I have been programming since I was 15 years old and began tinkering with android gadgets in 2013. I have always felt comfortable learning new things, especially tech-related ones. Thus, was no surprise when I enrolled on UPM in 2018 my classmates were learning the basics of coding while I was developing an Android game called Democracy and in just 6 months published it.

As time went by, I developed another Android app with a highly improved interface, smooth animations, and reliability to help everyone stay organized.

During my time at UPM, the university presented me with the opportunity to become a member of the HKN-IEEE honour society and start the first chapter in Spain, the second of Europe in partnership with the UNED University. I knew HKN was a prestigious society and only top students could be invited so I felt honoured and become the founding president of the Nu Beta chapter at UPM with a GPA of 3.38.

I graduated with honour being in The top 8% of my class which allowed me to enrol in ETH. Where I am currently studying MS in CS majoring in Data management systems and minoring in Information Security.

I have also worked for almost a year in Haivision where I did an internship and helped the company gain insight into their operation expenses. Thus, helping them to save over 5k€ per month.

However, not all my passion revolves around tech. I find very intriguing the world of finance, especially the world of personal finance and investing in which I would like to keep on learning.

I have worked in Haivision as a Software engineer/ DevOps engineer. I have used NodeJS and React as my Development tools. Regarding the DevOps tech stack, we used Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Azure blob storage and Docker.

I am also proficient in Linux (I daily drive Kubuntu) and in git.

During my working time in Haivision, I helped them reduce their operational costs by gathering usage metrics in real time and reacting to those usage metrics accordingly (spinning up nodes or shutting them down). Which saved them around 5k€ per month.

I studied my bachelor in the second best university in Spain according to QS ranking (UPM). Graduated with honours in said university achieving a score of 3.38/4 which positions me  inside the top 8% among my peers.

This allowed me access to ETH, where I am currently studying MS in CS majoring in Data Management Systems and minoring in Information Security.