Pol Santamaria

Fractional CTO — data platforms & operational AI that survive production.

Founding CTO at Qbeast. Distributed systems researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Today hands-on across lakehouses, orchestration, and AI that runs in production.

Selective advisory & architectural sparring

Pol Santamaria
Know more
  • Intel Ignite
  • Qbeast
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center
  • Tameson

Expertise & how I collaborate

I lead data and AI architecture hands-on: analytics platforms, agent tooling, and hybrid cloud or self-hosted infra. Selective side work — architecture reviews, cost and pipeline second opinions — and open to future Head of Data or CTO conversations.

Data & distributed systems

From BSC research on NoSQL, hierarchical storage, and approximate analytics to shipping multidimensional indexing on Delta Lake at Qbeast — and production analytics that stay reliable and cost-aware under load.

  • Apache Spark
  • Delta Lake
  • Apache Flink
  • Apache Arrow
  • BigQuery
  • Dataform
  • dbt
  • Dagster
  • Databricks
  • Snowflake

Operational AI & product building

Agents and LLM tooling in real workflows, plus the product muscle to go from MVP to production SaaS — fast iteration, hybrid cloud or self-hosted deploy, and systems you can observe and budget.

  • Hatchet
  • LiteLLM
  • Pydantic AI
  • OpenClaw
  • n8n
  • OpenAI
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • GCP
  • AWS

Leadership, process & IP

Hiring and leading engineering teams, technical due diligence with investors, patent and publication work, and the operating practices — scorecards, roadmaps, handovers — that keep delivery and people aligned.

  • Hiring & scorecards
  • Team leadership
  • Technical due diligence
  • Patents & publications
  • Roadmaps & planning
  • MBA · Quantic

Speaking

Talks on lakehouses, distributed systems, and production data platforms.

  • The future of Data Lakehouses: From ingestion to consumption with open table formats and protocols AI & Big Data Expo London2023 London, UK
  • Delta Lake: Liquid Clustering Spark Meetup · Adevinta HQ2023 Barcelona, Spain
    YouTube
  • Evaluating the Benefits of Key-Value Databases for Scientific Applications ICCS 20192019 Faro, Portugal
  • Big data for HPC: The Human Brain Project 2nd HBP Student Conference2018 Ljubljana, Slovenia Oral presentation and poster · 14–16 Feb 2018
    YouTube

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and journals from research work. 5 papers · 1 journal