Mikel Irazabal is a Principal Engineer at BubbleRAN. He received his PhD. degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona) in 2020, developed in the framework of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship. He pursuit his post-doc at Eurecom (Nice) in 2020, where he developed from scratch an O-RAN standard E2 Agent, nearRT-RIC and xApp framework, best known as FlexRIC. He also worked for the OpenAirInterface Alliance before joining BubbleRAN this year. He is currently a Technical Program Co-Chair of the Next-generation Open and Programmable Radio Access Networks (NG-OPERA) Infocom workshop. His research interests focus on next generation O-RAN cellular networks in real wireless testbeds. He is also a hard core programmer at his heart.