Miriam Pena
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMiriam Pena is a software engineer who designs distributed, scalable, high-performance systems and brings over a decade of experience delivering multi-region, highly available infrastructure. She is currently at Meta, shaping WhatsApp infrastructure with a focus on multi-region AWS deployments and high concurrency. As founder and board member of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, she leads BEAM community efforts and speaks internationally, including Code BEAM and Empex LA, while organizing Erlang & Elixir Meetups in San Francisco. At NextRoll, she led Erlang-based AdServers and RTB platforms handling millions of requests per second and open-sourced the mero memcache library. Her earlier work includes optimizing the inside of Ejabberd for social networks, reflecting a knack for turning complex messaging systems into reliable production engines. Based in San Francisco, she blends hands-on engineering with ecosystem leadership to advance scalable, resilient architectures.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish
Github Skills (30)
erlang10
elixir10
erlang-otp10
otp10
amazon-dynamodb10
gleam10
phoenix-framework10
foundation9
beam9
staging9
memcached9
aws9
dynamodb9
scalable8
ecosystem8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SemanticSugar/dinerl
Feb 2014 - Dec 2020
Erlang AWS DynamoDB client
Contributions:3 reviews, 14 commits, 8 PRs in 6 years 11 months
aws-dynamodberlangdynamodb-clientamazon-dynamodbdynamodb
AdRoll/mero
Apr 2015 - Sep 2018
scalable and lightweight OTP Erlang client for memcached
Contributions:1 review, 55 commits, 26 PRs in 3 years 6 months
scalableerlangerlang-otpawscluster
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