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Portrait of Adrián Escalona

Adrián Escalona

Aerospace & Telecommunications Engineer

tl;dr

I'm an aerospace and telecommunications engineer from Barcelona with a double Bachelor's degree, now pursuing a Master's in Telecommunications Engineering. Currently a Software Engineer at Software Radio Systems, with 3+ years of research experience in university collaborations. Passionate about telecommunications, decentralized networks and software-defined radio.

Experience

Software Engineer

Software Radio Systems jul. 2025 — present

Barcelona, Spain

Development of open-source 5G RAN software.

Research Assistant

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya mar. 2026 — present

Barcelona, Spain

Research on real-time LiDAR processing and visualization in the framework of the RESILIENCE-D-2024 European project.

Researcher

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya oct. 2024 — jul. 2025

Castelldefels, Spain

Research on LiDAR integration, processing and visualization of point cloud & radiation data, and on-board drone (DJI) software for the Spanish Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) through the ICARUS research group at UPC.

Research Internship

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya oct. 2022 — oct. 2024

Castelldefels, Spain

Development of on-board control software for drones (DJI) in a distributed architecture for the ICARUS research group at UPC.

Software Developer

Splash Group Hispano S.L. oct. 2019 — oct. 2024

Barcelona, Spain (Remote)

Development of multiplayer game servers, distributed applications (microservices), desktop apps, websites (user control panels) and public/private APIs.

Barcelona HackUPC

Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona may 2023, 2024, 2025

Barcelona, Spain

I love participating in hackathons solving challenges. For this very reason I attended the 9th, 10th and 11th edition of HackUPC in 2023–25, developing projects such as internet-independent decentralized BLE mesh networks.

Education

Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya sept. 2025 — present

Barcelona, Spain

2-year master's degree.

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering and Telecommunications Systems

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya sept. 2020 — jul. 2025

Castelldefels, Spain

5-year double degree. Honors in Programming I, Programming II, Operating Systems, Networking Protocols and Software Radio Engineering.