Alejandro Proano
Sr Applied Scientist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Proano is a senior applied scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in performance engineering for distributed systems, currently leading Brand Experience & Excellence at Amazon. He has a strong track record across CDN and network teams at AWS, Microsoft, and Verizon, where he modeled capacity, tuned high-scale systems, and partnered with hardware vendors to align server configurations with real-world performance needs. Alejandro pairs deep academic training (PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering) with hands-on engineering—building performance harnesses, automating testing, and developing data infrastructure for ML and adversary analysis. He is equally comfortable in code and hardware, mentoring teams and running internship programs while translating complex metrics into actionable, data-driven recommendations. Notably, his work spans both incident response and proactive capacity modeling, giving him rare visibility into production failure modes and preventive design. Based in Seattle, he combines rigorous research instincts with practical delivery at internet scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaData Analyst Nanodegree and Fullstack Nanodegree, Data Analyst Nanodegree and Fullstack Nanodegree at UdacityManagement Development Program: Business Essentials for Managers, Management Development Program: Business Essentials for Managers at USC Marshall School of BusinessBachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Spanish, English
Github Skills (6)
python-asyncio3
aio3
asynchronous2
python2
asyncssh1
asyncio1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aproano2/cmp-3004-spring22-aproano
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
aproano2/cmp-3002-fall21-aproano
Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:35 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 3 months
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