Adriel Velazquez
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdriel Velazquez is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building backend systems and APIs at scale, currently shaping platform reliability and features at Reddit. He brings deep expertise in Python ecosystems—Flask, Django, SQLAlchemy—alongside GraphQL, REST, and data-search tooling like Elasticsearch and Spark. His background includes leadership roles at Fitbit and engineering management in media and revenue teams, blending hands-on coding with cross-functional collaboration. Comfortable operating on AWS managed services and caching layers, he focuses on pragmatic, observable systems that support high-throughput consumer traffic. Notably, his career path pairs a creative-writing BA with an MS in Software Engineering, suggesting strong communication skills that complement his technical influence.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Software Development and Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.), Software Development and Engineering at Pace UniversityB.A, English, Creative Writing, B.A, English, Creative Writing at City University of New York
Github Skills (60)
confluent10
sphinxql10
operation10
connect10
kafka10
self-healing10
librdkafka10
github-copilot10
confluent-cloud10
golang10
producer10
apache-kafka10
kafka-cluster10
apache9
dialect9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
AdrielVelazquez/confluent-kafka-go
Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
golangsinkapache-kafkaavroconfluent-cloud
AdrielVelazquez/sqlalchemy-sphinx
Feb 2016 - Sep 2019
SphinxQL Dialect for SQLAlchemy
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 37 commits in 3 years 7 months
pythondialectsphinxqlsqlalchemy
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