Caleb Sotelo
Principal Consultant Software Engineer at Closure Consulting, LLC
South Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolCaleb Sotelo is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-scale backend systems, modernizing legacy codebases, and improving developer experience across AdTech, search/ML, streaming, HR tech, and research organizations. He combines startup agility with Google-scale engineering discipline, having led performance, reliability, and API unification efforts that produced up to 10x response improvements and powers ~10M daily RBAC checks. Caleb has led cross-functional teams and on-call incident responses, founded an architecture Tech Roundtable, and formally mentors engineers across levels. He’s driven org-wide adoption of AI-assisted workflows and given technical talks demystifying ML clustering and tooling. Currently consulting on distributed systems and observability while exploring staff/principal roles, he’s drawn to positions where technical strategy, platform reliability, and developer productivity intersect. Based in South Pasadena, he pairs hands-on coding with a research-minded curiosity informed by work with the Santa Fe Institute.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMusic / Trumpet Performance, Music / Trumpet Performance at Pasadena City CollegeHistory of Science Sociology, History of Science Sociology at Santa Monica CollegeSanta Monica High School
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calebds/healthy-gulp-angular
Feb 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 6 months
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openx/amphtml
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 days
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