Alberto Avila
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlberto Avila is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building and leading distributed systems and infrastructure at scale, currently shaping YouTube's identity, permissions, and settings backends. He combines hands-on C++ systems development with cross-team technical leadership, shipping high-impact projects like YouTube Kids profiles and channel name decoupling. Comfortable across the full stack, he has re-architected platforms into microservices, implemented search and messaging solutions, and migrated services to Kubernetes. Known for making tough architectural trade-offs and living with their consequences, he mentors junior engineers and drives consensus across time zones. He favors environments with strong knowledge sharing and measurable impact, and brings a knack for balancing pragmatic execution with long-term platform health.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IngenierĂa en sistemas computacionales, IngenierĂa en sistemas computacionales at Universidad Valle del Bravo
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (70)
python10
django-framework10
overriding10
django10
orm10
decimal10
javascript9
jquery9
sql9
syntax9
onclick9
winforms9
timer9
radio-buttons9
console9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
albertein/coltsintheme
Feb 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:47 commits in 1 month
wizeline/sqlalchemy-pagination
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Small utility to paginate SqlAlchemy queries.
Contributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 months
pythonsqlalchemypaginatesqlalchemy-paginatequeries
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