Alvaro Del Barco
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
San José, Costa Rica
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Top SchoolAlvaro Del Barco is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient networked systems, currently leading engineering at Akamai. He blends deep Linux systems and network expertise—Cisco configuration, DNS deployments, VLAN design—with hands-on automation and QA skills in TCL, Python, shell, and CI tooling. His background spans R&D test automation for networking hardware, database development (MySQL/Postgres), and ASIC-level work, reflecting comfort across firmware-to-cloud layers. Bilingual and teaching-capable, he has taught a master's cybersecurity course and is completing a master's in the field, bringing a security-first mindset to infrastructure and automation. Notably, he has driven high-availability DNS solutions for multiple customers and maintained complex Linux automation environments that surfaced subtle cross-system failures. Based in San José, Costa Rica, he pairs pragmatism from years of support and operations with principal-level architectural thinking.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Latina de Costa RicaInstituto Tecnológico de Costa RicaMáster en Ciberseguridad, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Máster en Ciberseguridad, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Tecnológico de Costa RicaBachillerato, Ingenieria Electrica, Bachillerato, Ingenieria Electrica at Universidad de Costa Rica
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (48)
firmware10
del10
provisioning10
virtual-server10
3d-printing10
private-network10
esp3210
arduino10
nikola9
hardware9
32-bit9
ipfs9
ansible9
3d-printer9
avr9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rngkll/rndc_stats_parser
Mar 2019 - May 2025
Contributions:8 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 3 months
rngkll/gateway-remote-config
Sep 2019 - Jul 2026
Provides settings for TTN gateways that receive their settings automatically on start.
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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