Carlos Diaz-padron
CEO at Dollhouse Robotics
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCarlos Diaz-padron is a versatile software engineer and serial founder with 14 years of experience building distributed systems, cloud platform automation, and immersive storytelling tools for VR. Based in San Francisco, he blends deep systems-level skills (Rust, C/C++, CUDA, OpenGL) with full-stack fluency (Python, Ruby/Rails, Go, JavaScript) and a knack for quickly adopting new languages. He has led engineering and product teams as CTO/co-founder and CEO across startups focused on multiplayer storytelling, no-code video chat, DAO onboarding, and humanoid-robot entertainment. An active contributor to HashiCorp Nomad, he’s improved agent configuration, Docker integration, and removed a CGO dependency to streamline deployments—an example of his focus on practical, performance-oriented refactors. Beyond software, he applies ML and robotics expertise to train humanoid robots for competitive performance, combining research-grade technical depth with event-driven commercial products.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Belen Jesuit Prepatory SchoolPhysics Mathematics, Physics Mathematics at School for Advanced StudiesInformation Systems concentrated in Computer Science, Information Systems concentrated in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
go10
docker10
nomad10
dockers10
configuration-management9
system-design8
api-design7
nestjs6
mongoose6
nodejs6
typescript6
javascript6
docker-compose6
mongodb6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/nomad
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 22 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Carlos focused on enhancing the Nomad agent's client configuration, adding options for internal configuration and merging logic. They also contributed to the Docker driver by implementing default environment usage for Docker connections and incorporating a hostname parameter. Furthermore, the user refactored code to improve efficiency by removing a CGO dependency and moving user lookup functionality.
vaultperformantmicroserviceworkloadoperate
carlosdp/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Jun 2024
Contributions:23 pushes in 8 years 11 months
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