Alex Almada
Lead Backend Engineer at Maestro
Sonora, Mexico
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Top SchoolAlex Almada is a Lead Backend Engineer with nearly two decades of experience building and stabilizing high-throughput distributed systems, currently delivering live content to millions of concurrent viewers at Maestro. He drives backend direction and architecture, having led migrations to self-managed clustered Redis and gRPC-based microservices that produced orders-of-magnitude performance and cost improvements. Comfortable across Node.js, Go, Kubernetes, gRPC, Redis, and Apache Beam, he blends hands-on implementation with team leadership—running stability teams, contributing analytics pipelines, and serving on the architectural decision review committee. Alex favors pragmatic, minimal designs—he starts from the problem, often preferring to remove systems rather than add them—and iterates fast when wrong. His background includes fractional CTO work designing WebRTC and Shopify integrations and interviewing hundreds of engineers, reflecting both deep technical breadth and strong hiring judgment. Based in Sonora, Mexico, he pairs production-scale experience with a developer-entrepreneur mindset from years of consulting and startup practice.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems at Tecnológico de MonterreyFull Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampNanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer, Nanodegree, Full Stack Web Developer at Udacity
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (28)
corona10
pdf10
tailwindcss9
prisma8
zod8
postgresql8
typescript7
nextjs7
health7
js-client6
nodejs6
open-source6
next-auth6
react5
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexalmadav/gcp-pubsub-action
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 11 commits in 2 days
lessthan3/private-actions-checkout
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
GitHub Action to make custom private actions easily available to any workflow
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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