Carlos Baquero is an Assistant Professor and teaches Distributed Systems at Universidade do Minho, Portugal. He is a Senior Researcher at the High Assurance Software Laboratory within INESC TEC. In the 90s, motivated by mobile computing and offline operation for file systems, he studied data types with merge operations over semi-lattices, a precursor to state-based CRDTs.

As an academic, he believes on pursuing research that can have a practical impact. His work on causality tracking, scalable bloom filters, and CRDTs made its way into several products and systems, running in production worldwide.

Away from computers he enjoys mountain climbing, and scavenging for old mechanical calculators.