This Aether community member profile features Gabriel Arrobo. Gabriel is a Senior Cloud Software Architect at Intel and is based in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Gabriel has been an active contributor to the Aether community since 2022, and he is a member of the Aether Technical Steering Team (TST). Most recently, he led the development of Aether SD-Core over the past few years. Some of his key contributions include implementation of GTPu path monitoring; implementation of the CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions; managing the GitHub repositories and container registries for Aether SD-Core and replacing outdated dependencies.
Gabriel began his telecom education as an undergrad student at Escuela Politécnica Nacional in Ecuador where he studied Electronics and Telecommunications and earned his Engineering degree (5-year degree) in Electronics and Telecommunications, graduating Cum Laude. Following college, Gabriel joined the “Corporacion Nacional de Telecomunicaciones” (formerly ANDINATEL), a telecommunications service provider, where he held various positions ranging from staff engineer to manager, and had the opportunity to work on optical and transport backbone networks, wireless multi-access networks, telephone switching, and network routing. He desired to continue his formal education and moved to the U.S. and earned his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida. During his studies, he pursued an opportunity to work on his doctoral degree and conduct research techniques to improve the reliability of wireless networks, completing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He remained at the University of South Florida as a Postdoctoral Scholar and worked on development of a WiFi-based wireless video camera system for minimally invasive surgeries.
Gabriel continued his career at Newfield Wireless (Tektronix/NetScout) with work focused on calibrating RF propagation models for LTE macro and small cells using the company’s proprietary and off-the-shelf software tools, including Newfield’s TruePath, Atoll, GeoPlan and PlanetEV. He also did research on LTE scanner data (RSRP, RSRQ, RS-CINR) to calibrate high quality path loss models and perform statistical analysis of the field measurement data. In 2016, Gabriel joined Intel to work on Wi-Fi differentiations by creating value above the Wi-Fi (MAC/PHY) layer(s) with the goal of improving end users’ quality of experience (QoE). Following Intel, he joined a cellular network standardization team to work on innovations for B5G/6G. Currently, Gabriel is part of the Intel Advanced Technology Group (formerly Intel Labs), and is researching 5G/B5G/6G networks and demonstrating benefits through PoCs using the Aether platform. Gabriel has filed 80+ patent applications (37 patents granted), published 20+ technical papers, and received multiple Intel Labs Division Awards.
Gabriel was born in Loja, Ecuador. In his free time he values spending quality time with his kids, often driving around the Portland area to attend their games, meets, practices, and recitals. Weekends tend to be full and lively. When the weather cooperates, he enjoys grilling a good piece of picanha and relaxing with family and close friends.
A special retreat for Gabriel is to enjoy the quiet of the night, especially during a new moon. Whenever he has the chance to get out of town, he escapes to Eastern Oregon or the coast where the skies are clear and dark. There’s nothing more special to him than spending the night under the stars, watching the constellations and the Milky Way in peaceful silence.
