Atila Romero
Software Engineer at Amazon
West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAtila Romero is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend systems, Kubernetes microservices, and data processing pipelines. He has led greenfield projects—from a Kubernetes-based S3 backup solution to a Forensic-as-a-Service platform for the Brazilian Federal Police that reduced delivery times dramatically—demonstrating a strong focus on design, maintainability, and testing. Comfortable across Go, Java, Python and TypeScript, he pairs systems orchestration skills (Ceph, MinIO, ArgoCD, Helm) with practical DevOps automation (Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions). Based in West Vancouver, he combines enterprise experience at companies like Global Relay and Amazon with meaningful open-source contributions to digital forensics tools, showing an interest in tooling that improves real-world investigations. Notably, he has repeatedly turned operational pain points into automated, well-documented solutions that enabled teams to move faster and safer.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at PUCRS - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do SulIncomplete, Physics, Incomplete, Physics at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Universidade da Região da Campanha - URCAMP
English
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Github Skills (16)
javas10
command-line-interface10
java10
command-line10
cli10
indexing9
computer-forensics9
ubuntu6
upstart6
algorithm6
floating-point6
chunking6
logging6
generator6
loops6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sepinf-inc/IPED
Apr 2016 - Mar 2019
IPED Digital Forensic Tool. It is an open source software that can be used to process and analyze digital evidence, often seized at crime scenes by law enforcement or in a corporate investigation by private examiners.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 3 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Atila primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the IPED digital forensic tool. Their work included modifying the indexing process to handle errors with a specific exit code. They also integrated the JCommander library to process command-line arguments, demonstrating a focus on improving the tool's usability and functionality via the command line interface. Furthermore, the user made changes related to incorporating timezone settings and sector size parameters within the SleuthkitReader, indicating interaction with data processing mechanisms.
forensicinvestigationcrimelawenforcement
setecrs/kubernetes
Jul 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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