The most toxic place I've ever worked

 Posted on August 28, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1266 words

Life of leaving home

Sometimes you reach the end of a journey. It’s often a comfortable place where the local sofa has an imprint you can call your own. Your reputation precedes you and there are few undecided about how they really feel about you.

That’s kind of where I was in 2022 towards the end of my stint at my first job out of college. Since the departure of one of our leaders, the organization seemed to be at the whims of a rotating cast in the upper ranks. Cost “optimizations” and a hiring process which privileged failing to reach consensus over finding common ground had made it clear to me that my time was coming to an end.

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Renán Ignacio

 Posted on September 27, 2022  |  3 minutes  |  584 words

TL;DR: You may know me by different names depending on how you met me. If you met me professionally or in grad school, you likely me know me as Renán. If you met me socially or through family or old friends, you likely know me as Ignacio or Iggy. Since 2024, I've started to use my maternal last name Rueda.

My full name is Renán Ignacio Del Valle Rueda.

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About me

 Posted on January 1, 0001  |  1 minutes  |  78 words

My name is Renán. I grew up on the east coast in the US after moving from Santiago de Chile when I was pretty young.

Currently I’m part of the container orchestration team at $COMPANY.

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2018

  • Master of Science in Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2014

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2012

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Publications

 Posted on January 1, 0001  |  1 minutes  |  180 words

Academic Publications
Renan DelValle, Abhishek Jain, Pradyumna Kaushik, Jessica Hartog, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, “Exploiting Efficiency Opportunities based on Workloads with Electron on Heterogeneous Clusters”, accepted for publication in the The 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 2017. [doi:10.1145/3147213.3147226] [pdf]
Renan DelValle, Abhishek Jain, Pradyumna Kaushik, Jessica Hartog, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, “Electron: Towards Efficient Resource Management on Heterogeneous Clusters with Apache Mesos”, accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Applications Track, 2017. [doi:10.1109/CLOUD.2017.41] [pdf]
Renan DelValle, Gourav Rattihalli, Angel Beltre, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Michael Lewis , “Exploring the Design Space for Optimizations with Apache Aurora and Mesos”, in the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Applications Track, 2016. [doi:10.1109/CLOUD.2016.0077 ] [pdf]
Jessica Hartog, Renan Delvalle, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Michael J. Lewis: Performance Analysis of Adapting a MapReduce Framework to Dynamically Accommodate Heterogeneity. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems (TLSDKCS) 20:108-130 (2015)
Jessica Hartog, Renan DelValle, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Michael Lewis, “Configuring A MapReduce Framework for Performance-Heterogeneous Clusters”, in IEEE Big Data 2014, Research Track, June 27 – July 2, 2014, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. [bibtex] [pdf]