Alberto Aguirre
Sr Software Development Engineer at Amazon Lab126
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Aguirre is a senior software development engineer with 15 years of experience building systems software and backend services, currently at Amazon Lab126 in Frisco, Texas. He has deep embedded and systems expertise from long tenures at Texas Instruments and Canonical, contributing to projects from multimedia stacks to Ubuntu Touch and the Multipass virtual instance orchestrator. Alberto blends full-stack familiarity—QML/UX work on unity8—with backend robustness, having improved SSHFS, permissions handling, and memory/resource management in production code. Known for pragmatic refactors that reduce dependencies and for integrating new IPC interfaces (DBus) into device power management, he pairs low-level troubleshooting with product-focused delivery. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from UTEP and brings a research-driven mindset to shipping reliable, efficient software.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., M.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., M.S., Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at El Paso
Spanish, English
Github Skills (11)
qml10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
back-end-development10
dbus10
ssh10
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
user-interface9
openssl7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/multipass
Dec 2017 - Nov 2018
Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:161 commits, 158 PRs, 83 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily focused on improving the Multipass service's backend. Their contributions included refactoring code to remove dependencies, enhancing the SSH client's error handling, and fixing issues related to file ownership and permissions within the SSHFS mount functionality. They also addressed memory management and optimized resource usage.
hyper-vorchestratesinstancesvdivirtual-machine
ubports/unity8
May 2014 - Nov 2014
The operating environment for everywhere.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily contributed to the `unity8` repository, making changes related to display power state management and integration within the Ubuntu Touch environment. They updated code to utilize a new DBus interface for display power state changes and implemented reason-based handling for display power state changes. Furthermore, the user merged code from the trunk and made changes to QML files to incorporate these updates, particularly affecting the lockscreen functionality. They also contributed to changes in the screenshot functionalities and other generic scope views.
dotfilesoperatinglinux
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