Vicente holds a Master’s degree of Sciences and a Bachelor of Computer Sciences specialized in HPC, specifically distributed file systems for Big Data frameworks, both from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea.

Before coming to Kitware, Vicente worked for one year as a core developer in one of the industry’s leading parallel file systems called BeeGFS. Also, while working on his bachelor’s and master’s degree, he developed and published a distributed file system that could be used instead of HDFS for hadoop applications to improve overall performance in multiple scenarios.