About

Hi, I am Otávio Carvalho, a Distributed Systems engineer, originally from Pelotas, Brazil and currently living in Barcelona, Spain. I am passionated about Distributed Systems and I have been focusing on this field for applied engineering and research for more than 10 years.

Currently I’m working as a Lead Engineer for New Relic focusing on Distributed Event Processing for the Entity Platform. You can find more about my engineering career on LinkedIn.

I am both BSc and MSc in Computer Science from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), several times ranked the best university for Computer Science in Latin America.

During my period in academia, I have published research papers in top-rated peer reviewed conferences worldwide in the topics of Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Fog Computing and Internet Of Things, as a member of the The Parallel and Distributed Processing Group (GPPD) research group. You can find more about my research publications on Google Scholar.

You can find me on Twitter, GitHub and LinkedIn or contact me directly.

Blog

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Mar 24, 2024

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Speaking

Although I am not actively participating on events these days, I still enjoy speaking ocassionally. Please reach out if you'd like to invite me to an event.

GaruaGeo - Global Scale Data Aggregation in Hybrid Edge and Cloud Computing Environments · pdf	9th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER). Heraklion, Crete.	Apr 08, 2019
Non-Kafkaesque Apache Kafka · pdf	2nd ThoughtWorks Yottabyte Data Conference. Beijing, China.	Aug 20, 2018
A Distributed Stream Processing based Architecture for IoT Smart Grids Monitoring · pdf	10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC). Austin, Texas.	Dec 08, 2017
IoT Workload Distribution Impact Between Edge and Cloud Computing in a Smart Grid Application · pdf	4th Latin American High Performance Computing Conference (CARLA). Buenos Aires, Argentina.	Sep 20, 2017
Distributed Stream Processing - An Overview · pdf	17th International Free Software Forum (FISL). Porto Alegre, Brazil.	Jul 15, 2016
A Survey of the State-of-the-art in Event Processing · pdf	9th Workshop of Parallel and Distributed Processing (WSPPD). Porto Alegre, Brazil.	Aug 16, 2013
Using execution traces to migrate HPC applications to Cloud Computing environments · pdf	31th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC). Brasília, Brazil.	May 10, 2013

Contact

You can reach me at hi@otavio.cat. I love meeting new people, so if you're in Barcelona, I'm almost always up for having lunch or coffee - just get in touch!

I try to answer all e-mails, but sometimes I have a bit of a backlog. Please use GitHub for any questions or bug reports concerning my open source projects, this way the information can become useful for all the community.