Crea Makerspace

Inspiring and fostering a local community of creators.

Founder Aug 2022 - July 2024

I founded a space to foster a local community of makers: 3D printing, robotics, laser cutting, CNC, woodworking, and more.

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Wind River

Enabling production-grade cloud-native distributed edge infrastructure powering 5G.

Senior Engineering Manager: Container Infra & DevOps June 2021 - Aug 2022

• Delivered Kubernetes platform powering the 5G distributed edge (StarlingX)
• Led adoption of distributed build and CI architecture to support a 100+ member engineering org.

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Algorithmia

Empowering organizations to extract value from investments in AI, Machine Learning, and data science.

Director of Engineering: Infrastructure & Operations Oct 2019 - June 2021

• Delivered Kubernetes-based enterprise ML platform to Fortune 500 organizations
• Increased release engineering capabilities to support SaaS and Enterprise products
• Led center of excellence for the QA discipline and Operational Readiness for the engineering organization
• Responsible for Production Engineering of algorthmia.com including its SOC 2 compliance process

Director of Customer Engineering June 2018 - Oct 2019

• Built multi-disciplinary org responsible for customer lifecycle from pre-sales to delivery, education, support, and account growth going into $25M Series B
• Led architecture and development of cloud deployment platform for Fortune 500 organizations (AWS, Azure, GovCloud, C2S, Kubernetes, Python)
• Worked cross-org to drive a reorg (dissolving my own org, forming the new new Infra & Operations team)

Senior Software Engineer Jan 2015 - Jun 2018

• Designed and implemented ML platform (Scala, JS, MySQL, Rust, Docker)
• Architected a successful and transformational frontend rewrite (VueJS, NodeJS, Typescript)
• Built deployment automation to enable complex enterprise and government deployments (AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible)

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Lestanza

Empowering childcare owners to care more about children and less about paperwork.

Co-creator Jan 2012 - Jan 2019

• Started small business in Mexico to help government-subsidized daycares.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained a production Rails service

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Socrata (acquired by Tyler Technologies)

Empowering governments and their citizens with Open Data.

Software Engineer 2 (DevOps) Mar 2013 - Jan 2015

• Designed and built Azure provisioning and deployment automation
• Led the adoption of Docker for production services
• Authored Chef configuration management and created processes for maintaining distributed systems
• Implemented monitoring infrastructure (Sensu) across physical datacenters and Azure
• Drove operational requirements, hardware capacity planning, and deployment pipeline for a major rearchitecture

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Microsoft

Software Development Engineer in Test 2 Jun 2011 - Mar 2013

Drove software distribution test strategy and security compliance for embedded devices using write-filters (System Center Configuration Manager)

Software Developer Engineering in Test Jan 2009 - Jun 2011

Developed Windows 7 storage certification tools relating to SSDs, Storage Controllers, and Data Integrity (Windows Storage & File Systems)

Are We Learning Yet? - Creator and co-maintainer

Cataloging the Rust-based Machine Learning ecosystem

Rust OSS Maintainer - Creator and maintainer

Maintain a variety of OSS Rust crates across multiple domains (CLI user experience, client libraries, OS utilities)

Iowa State University - Graduated 2008 - B.S. in Computer Engineering

Tec de Monterrey - Abroad 2007 - Spanish (fluent) and Computer Engineering