JULIO MANUEL ALEGRIA

october 2022 - current

october 2020 - september 2022

(3 years, 2 months, and 3 days)

Staff Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Remote (Europe)

• Part of the Foundations team,
• Working on the design and constant improvement of our session storage, ingesting millions of daily sessions, formed by billions of user events, in a multi-service environment.
• Using Python, ClickHouse, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, among others.

march 2019 - march 2020

(1 year)

Sabbatical time: traveling the world , and

Creator (and sole engineer)

Nomad

• Keeping myself entertained doing what I love most: coding and traveling.
• Site focused on budget traveling, posting expenses daily.
• Using DigitalOcean, Dokku, Python, Django Framework, Leaflet, PostgreSQL, Instagram API, jQuery, CSS, among others.

november 2017 - february 2019

(1 year, 4 months)

Software Engineer III

Paris, France

• Part of the Search and Discovery team.
• Worked on a Machine Learning platform that simplified training, hosting, and managing classifier models used by several YouTube teams on the whole YouTube Corpus.

october 2015 - october 2017

(2 years)

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

San Francisco, CA

• Part of the Ads Serving SRE team.
• Took care of releasing, troubleshooting, insuring scalability, reducing toil, and managing incidents for Ads services receiving millions of QPS.
• Part of the on-call rotation with a 5-minute response time, taking care of services running in several DCs, holding SLOs over 99.9%.

may 2013 - october 2015

(2 years and 5 months)

Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA

• Designed and implemented the RESTful web API using Python, Django Framework, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, Celery, RabbitMQ, Redis, among others.

may 2011 - april 2013

(2 years)

Software Engineer

Arequipa, Peru

• Developed several projects using Python, Django Framework, MySQL, jQuery, and AJAX, among others.

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Universidad Católica San Pablo (UCSP).

Arequipa, Peru.

Website: You Can Afford To Travel, focused on budget traveling.

Open source project: python-craigslist.

Teaching assistant, Computer Science Program, UCSP.

Introduction to Programming (1st Semester), teaching Python as first programming language (4 hours a week).

Member of the University ACM-ICPC Team.

Programming Camp at UNICAMP.

Campinas SP, Brazil

Django Introductory Workshop - Speaker.

Teaching assistant, Computer Science Program, UCSP.

Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (2nd Semester), teaching C++ and the OO Paradigm (2 hours a week).

Python Introductory Workshop - Speaker.

Member of the University Robotics Team.