Ale Paredes
Director Of Engineering at Viam
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAle Paredes is a Director of Engineering based in New York with 14 years of experience building and scaling teams and systems across startups and larger technology companies. She has progressed from mobile and full‑stack development to senior leadership roles at Code Climate and Stripe, now leading engineering at Viam with a focus on resilient, scalable architectures and inclusive team growth. A hands‑on leader and mentor, Ale has contributed to open‑source projects such as the popular ruby-kafka client—adding consumer controls and offset management improvements—demonstrating her depth in distributed systems. She co-founded Latinas in Tech NYC, reflecting a sustained commitment to diversity and community building alongside technical delivery.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ingenieria en Computación, Computer Science, Ingenieria en Computación, Computer Science at Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón BolívarSJT
English, Spanish
Github Skills (4)
apache-kafka10
rspec10
ruby10
api-design9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/ruby-kafka
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
A Ruby client library for Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 68 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ale primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and usability of the Kafka client library. Their contributions included implementing new features such as exposing `commit_offsets` in the consumer and adding the `automatically_mark_as_processed` option to `each_batch`. They also refactored the code by renaming `auto_commit_offsets` to `offset_commit_enabled` and moving related logic to the `offset_manager`. Furthermore, the user added the `#seek` method to the consumer for improved control and seeking operations.
apache-kafkaruby-clientkafka-clientkafkaruby
ale7714/ruby-kafka
Apr 2017 - May 2018
A Ruby client library for Apache Kafka 0.9
Contributions:3 PRs, 71 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year
apache-kafkaclient-libraryruby-clientrubyapache
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