Enzo Alda

Enzo Alda is the founder of Lakebolt Research, a firm focused on end-user software development. His areas of interests are programming language design and implementation, parallel-reactive computing, and programming education. Formerly, he held roles at technology startups and large organizations like Oracle, Bloomberg, and Google. In 1995, while working at a storage devices startup, he invented the RAID 5 instant initialization algorithm. Before coming to the USA, Mr. Alda lectured courses in compiler construction and computer organization in Latin America. He has a B.S. degree in Software Engineering, an M.S. in Computer Science, and an MBA from The Wharton School. Mr. Alda is a member of the IEEE (1999) and the ACM (2013).