Jumping to another “constellation”: Our former collaborators

Sep 1, 2023 | News | 1 comment

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There are many who continue their careers elsewhere after working at ALMA, but not before recognizing the importance of our observatory in their professional development.
This is the case of Alejandro Barrientos, who worked with us for 12 years as Technical Dataflow Engineer, and today works as Systems Administrator of the Scientific Information Services group at NRAO.

“It was a decade of growth, both personally and professionally. The work experience together with the possibility of being able to study and obtain a doctorate, added to my personal evolution, gave me the tools to continue contributing to ALMA’s objective from a place that needed it”, he says.

Isaac Goicovich, who after spending 25 months as our Front Line Software Engineer, is now at the NAOJ ALMA Project as a Senior Specialist, has similar thoughts.

For Isaac, his time at our observatory “was incredible! I met a lot of interesting people and I felt renewed curiosity and desire to learn. That allows you to be awake, attentive to the possibilities”. Likewise, Isaac believes that ALMA has “a very rich ecosystem and opportunities appear regularly”, he adds.

The same is the opinion of Mauricio Zambrano, who spent more than 16 years in various positions in the Software area, most recently as a database administrator.

Years that did not go unnoticed for Mauricio, who recognizes that ALMA “allowed me to develop professionally in areas of my interest thanks to training in tools with which I could do my job better”.

Today, working at the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) as a database engineer, he sees how key it was to have worked at our observatory before: “The experience you gain from being in ALMA’s operation is something that has little comparison with any other observatory today because of the scale and the contributions to the observatory’s science. Sometimes this is something you don’t think about very much when you are at ALMA”, Mauricio acknowledges.

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  1. Martin Diaz

    Gracias por compartir sus experiencias y mucho éxito en sus nuevos desafíos!!!!!

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