Nicolas Mesa
Cofounder CTO at Veleiro AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Mesa is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur, currently Cofounder and CTO of Veleiro AI, bringing 11 years of experience building scalable SaaS and web applications. Based in Seattle, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to drive product, reliability, and architecture at fast-growing startups and large tech companies. At Amazon, he led reliability and deployment improvements—end-to-end tests, operational excellence roadmaps, post-mortems, readiness reviews for tier-1 services, automated rollbacks, and a service for ingesting and augmenting employee contributions—strengthening production confidence and reducing incidents. Earlier, he led software development and deployment at AliadosWeb and Alegra, delivering SMB-focused SaaS products, automating deployments, and guiding multi-disciplinary teams across back-end and front-end work. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University and a BS in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from Antioquia School of Engineering, underscoring a solid academic foundation paired with practical leadership and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.04 / 4.00, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 4.04 / 4.00 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems Engineering, 3.52 / 4, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems Engineering, 3.52 / 4 at Antioquia School of Engineering
Spanish, English
Github Skills (30)
raspberry-pi-310
sandbox10
sd-card10
virtual-machine10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
raspberry10
assembler10
virtualization10
armv810
raspberry-pi-os10
serverless10
operating-system10
firecracker9
bare-metal9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nicolasmesa/PiOS
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Toy RPi Kernel for learning purposes
Contributions:60 commits, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
kernelrpitoylinuxmulticore
nicolasmesa/Accountit
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
Toy accounting project to practice Django
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
djangoaccountingtoypython
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