Francisco Fernández Castaño

Francisco Fernández Castaño is a Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic, focusing on the Elasticsearch distributed systems team since April 2020, after serving as a Senior Software Engineer. Previously, Francisco worked as a Software Engineer at DataStax, contributing to the core database team for Apache Cassandra. Additionally, Francisco has experience in teaching Neo4j in the "Master in Big Data Architecture" program at KSchool, and held roles as a Site Reliability Engineer and Software Engineer at GrapheneDB. Significant past positions include Technical Reviewer at Packt Publishing, Software Engineer roles at upclose and Biicode, and a Junior Developer position at flowlab, working with Ruby on Rails. Early career experiences include Research Assistant roles at ARCO Research Group and ORETO, focusing on distributed architectures and infrastructure for indoor navigation using augmented reality techniques. Francisco holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, completed in 2012.