Alvaro Inckot
Founding Engineer at Runlayer
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAlvaro Inckot is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 11+ years building scalable, multi-tenant cloud platforms across AI, fintech, and logistics. He has led architecture and delivery at Intel—designing low-latency authz, observability, and rate-limiting systems for 100k+ users and prototyping AI accelerator stacks—and earlier scaled Nelnet’s serverless platforms to handle 15× higher servicing volume. Hands-on across Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL optimizations and cloud-native patterns, he obsessively reduces latency and operational cost (e.g., cutting batch jobs from 4 hours to under a minute). He mentors senior engineers and shapes DevEx, SRE, and security practices while translating technical complexity into measurable business value. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Moleculer’s protobuf serializer and broker behavior, showing a persistent drive to harden distributed systems used broadly by the community. Based in Orlando, he combines startup founding instincts with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of ParanáBachelor of Information Systems Tecnologia da Informação, Bachelor of Information Systems Tecnologia da Informação at Universidade Positivo
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
705reputation
30kreached
19answers
7questions
Github Skills (20)
microservices-application10
distributed-systems10
nodejs10
microservices10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
testing9
javascript9
microservice-framework8
moleculer8
data-serialization8
serialization8
activerecord6
activemodel6
turbolinks6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
moleculerjs/moleculer
Mar 2019 - Aug 2022
:rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alvaro primarily contributed to the Moleculer microservices framework by adding and modifying protobuf message definitions, including the addition of a `seq` property to the `PacketInfo` message. They also added and updated unit tests for the protobuf serializer. Additionally, the user addressed broker-related functionality to avoid sending node info during the broker's stopping phase.
moleculersoanode-jsframeworkmicroservice-framework
alvarocantador/alvarocantador.github.io
Sep 2018 - May 2022
My personal website
Contributions:8 PRs, 34 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
reactnextjs
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