Diego Alvarez Email Address

Senior Software Developer

Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008.

I'm an engineer with a strong interest in Distributed Systems. My past experience was as a backend developer, then I moved to Production Engineering almost 3 years ago. I like working on systems with high throughput and a lot of data and servers. While I am capable of creating new things from scratch, improving existing systems is also exciting. Making them more resilient, faster, better monitored, and easier to maintain. I now use Golang and Kubernetes for the majority of my work. I also write Bash, Java, Ruby, and whatever else happens to be in the stack (With a strong preference in that order). I have a reasonable understanding of Linux, Kafka, Kubernetes, Google Cloud (GKE). I don't do Scala anymore and have no plans to work with Scala stacks in the future. I've worked exclusively remote for the last 4 years.