Oliver Alvarado Rodriguez is an incoming Research Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he will join the Chapel Programming Language team. He successfully defended his dissertation in March 2025 under the advisement of Dr. David A. Bader. His dissertation, “On the Design of a Framework for Large-Scale Exploratory Graph Analytics,” focused on the development of Arachne, a novel framework designed to bridge the gap between high-performance computing and Python-based exploratory graph analytics. He completed his Ph.D. at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ. Oliver earned his B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, graduating summa cum laude in May 2020. During his undergraduate studies, he was a member of the Honors College and the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society for computing and information disciplines. He was also honored with the Omicron Omega Award for excellence in computer science. During his Ph.D. studies, Oliver served as the student keynote speaker at the Academic Data Science Alliance meeting, delivering the talk “Enabling Exploratory Large-Scale Graph Analytics through Arkouda.”