Ignacio completed an M.S. degree on large-scale storage systems. He spent over 8 years working on the casino industry designing and developing software. In 2011 he got his Engineering degree in Informatics at the Universidad Católica del Uruguay. His research interests are storage systems, distributed systems, data reliability, and artificial intelligence. Although currently in an academic path Ignacio has an entrepreneurs mind and is focused on bringing his research closer to the business domain.