Marco Caballero

À propos

I’m a Researcher in the Cloud Infrastructure Group (opens in new tab) at Microsoft Research Cambridge (opens in new tab), which I joined in 2021 shortly after finishing my PhD. I’m currently working in the Library team of Project Silica (opens in new tab), where we are looking to create game-changing storage technology for the Cloud. This innovation is driven by co-designing all layers of the system, from the storage media to APIs, to fit the unique challenges of archive workloads in data centres.

My current research looks into the use of multi-robotic systems to facilitate media loading & unloading in Silica Libraries. I’m particularly interested in the impact that scheduling, routing, and fault tolerance of these robots have in the overall system performance, and how different configurations of these schemes can help support heterogeneous customer workloads across libraries and data centres.

Prior to this, I did my PhD at the Systems Research Group (opens in new tab) in Computer Science Department of University of Cambridge, where my work focused on the fault-tolerant routing for mobile ad hoc networks. Before moving into research, I was a Software Engineer for about 10 years, working in the Oracle RDBMS Scheduler for ~5 years, and on various internal systems at Microsoft’s SQL Server division for ~4 years.