# Jose Picado

> Engineering @ Speak

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/josepicado

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Speak
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineering Manager, Afterpay @ Cash App @ Cash App
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Afterpay
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant @ Oregon State University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | Corvallis, Oregon Area
•	Performed research on database management and machine learning. 
•	Developed Castor, a scalable relational learning system to perform concept learning over relational databases. 
•	Developed CastorX, an extension of Castor that learns over heterogeneous databases. 
•	Teaching assistant for the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Introduction to Databases, Database Management Systems, and Web Development courses.

### Research Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
•	Performed a survival study of cloud databases in the Microsoft Azure SQL Database service. 
•	Implemented a machine learning classifier that predicts the lifespan of databases based on telemetry data. 
•	Published paper on SIGMOD 2018: “Survivability of Cloud Databases - Factors and Prediction”.

### Graduate Technical Intern - Client R&D @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hillsboro, OR
•	Developed a desktop application for performing handwriting recognition and synthesis using Windows Presentation Foundation and Direct Ink.

### Graduate Technical Intern @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hillsboro, OR
•	Designed and implemented gesture modules to improve the user experience on touchscreen devices. 
•	Filed patent Multi-Touch Virtual Mouse, publication number: WO2016105329A1.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Wake Forest University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
•	ADE Discovery: Built a system to extract adverse drugs events (ADEs) from medical literature using Markov logic networks and natural language processing. 
•	Information Extraction: Developed a system that infers weakly-supervised examples for an information extraction task by using domain knowledge expressed in the form of first-order logic.

### Software Engineer @ Avantica Technologies
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
•	Developed plugins for Electric Cloud’s ElectricCommander (now called ElectricFlow), a continuous integration tool. 
•	Performed analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of plugins for the following tools: VMware Lab Manager, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2, Oracle VM VirtualBox, NAnt, Sonar.

### Research Assitant @ Insituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica - CIC
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science
Oregon State University

### M.S. in Computer Science
Wake Forest University

### B.S. in Computer Science
Tecnológico de Costa Rica


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jpicado
- Website: https://josepicado.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-01