Alex Soto
CTO VP Of Engineering Software Architect And Engineer at Independent Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Soto is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 17 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms, currently serving as an independent CTO/VP of Engineering and software architect. He combines hands-on engineering—having architected APIs that power thousands of streaming channels—with executive leadership, having scaled teams and managed multi-million dollar personnel budgets across four time zones. As a founding engineer at Wurl he designed core systems that contributed to a $430M acquisition, and at TelevisaUnivision he led the backend that supported a World Cup-scale streaming event and earned Apple/Android App of the Year recognition. He emphasizes observability, metrics-driven operations, and blameless postmortems to maintain stability during rapid release cycles. A bilingual leader comfortable in English and Spanish, he has a track record of shipping ambitious launches on aggressive timelines while mentoring distributed teams in production readiness.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoSt Ignatius
English, Spanish
Github Skills (181)
azure-functions10
serverless10
javascript10
meta-tags10
lambda10
aws-lambda10
monit10
serverless-framework10
favicon10
json-schema-validator10
aws10
frontend10
react10
sitemap-xml9
seo9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wurlinc/siren-browser
Dec 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:36 commits in 1 year 6 months
hypermediabrowserjavascriptsirenbrowser-based
apsoto/paratrooper
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
herokudeploy-to-heroku
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