Carlos Garcia-Alvarado

Carlos Garcia-Alvarado has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and companies. Carlos is currently serving as the Vice President of Engineering at CruxOCM since March 2023. Prior to this, they worked at VMware as the Incubation Leader for Modern Data Platforms in the Office of the CTO from February 2021 to March 2023.

Carlos also held multiple roles at Autonomic, including Director of Engineering from December 2020 to January 2021, Senior Software Engineering Manager from December 2019 to December 2020, Software Engineering Manager from March 2018 to November 2019, and Senior Software Engineer from October 2017 to February 2018.

Before their time at Autonomic, Carlos worked as a Senior Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services from September 2015 to October 2017. Carlos also worked at Pivotal Software, Inc. as a Principal Product Manager from May 2015 to September 2015, and as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff from August 2013 to April 2015.

Additionally, Carlos has experience as a Senior Software Engineer at Greenplum from August 2012 to August 2013, and as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Houston from January 2008 to August 2012. Carlos also had an internship at Greenplum on the Query Processing team in 2011.

Carlos began their career as a Co-founder at Techniks from April 2004 to June 2007.

Carlos Garcia-Alvarado's education history is as follows:

- From 2020 to 2023, Carlos attended Carnegie Mellon University and pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. The field of study for this degree is not specified.

- Between 2007 and 2012, Carlos attended the University of Houston, where they earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science.

- From 2007 to 2009, Carlos also pursued a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Computer Science at the University of Houston.

- Carlos earned a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Industrial Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey between 2005 and 2009.

- From 2001 to 2005, Carlos studied Computer Engineering and obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree from Universidad de las Américas Puebla.

- In 2004, Carlos participated in an exchange program at the DigiPen Institute of Technology, studying Computer Science.

- In 2003, Carlos also took part in an exchange program at The University of Texas at Austin, focusing on Computer Science.