Cristian Rojas

Cristian Rojas is a Big Data Software Engineer at NextRoll, Inc. since March 2017, specializing in backend software development utilizing technologies such as Java, Hadoop, and AWS. Concurrently, Cristian serves as a Software Engineer at BairesDev. Previously, a Technical Lead at Agencia Nacional Digital, Cristian focused on enhancing NVDA, a text reading software for visually impaired users. Cristian has experience as a Research Assistant at Universidad Distrital, where genomic assembly algorithms were analyzed and parallelized using OpenCL and C. As a Lead Developer at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cristian contributed to a hydrological forecasting system, leveraging Django and related technologies. Early career roles involved supporting GNU/Linux environments and Python development for bioinformatics tasks in high-performance computing centers at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Cristian holds a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering and a Master's degree in Information and Communications Sciences with an emphasis on Software Engineering from Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas.