Cesar Garza
Senior Backend Software Engineer at CoreWeave
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCesar Garza is a Senior Backend Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient, scalable, and secure web systems from concept to delivery. Based in San Antonio, he has led and scaled globally distributed teams while driving API-first architectures and critical edge services such as routing, gateway, and authentication. At DigitalOcean he contributed to widely used open-source tools including doctl and the Terraform provider—adding VPC and firewall capabilities and improving integration tests—demonstrating strong backend and DevOps fluency. His background at Rackspace spans hands-on system engineering to engineering management and enterprise architecture, where he modernized APIs, CI/CD, and container platforms. Known for pragmatic leadership, he combines deep operational experience with a track record of shipping production-quality services and thoughtful automation. An early-career systems engineer who progressed into architecture and management, he brings both the low-level systems perspective and the product-focused engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Software Engineering, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Software Engineering at Laredo Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Software Development, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Development at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (19)
cloud-computing10
apidoc10
testing10
command-line-interface10
hashicorp10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
terraformer10
go10
api10
command-line10
infrastructure-as-code10
cli10
kubernetes9
go-testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
digitalocean/terraform-provider-digitalocean
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Terraform DigitalOcean provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 25 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Cesar primarily contributed to the implementation of a new firewall datasource for the Terraform provider. Their work involved defining the schema, implementing functions to expand and flatten data, and creating tests for the datasource. They also updated the provider to use Go 1.16 and added support for Kubernetes node pool taints. Furthermore, they added graceful shutdown functionality to the droplet resource.
providercloudhashicorpinfrastructure-as-codeterraform
digitalocean/doctl
May 2020 - Nov 2021
The official command line interface for the DigitalOcean API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 66 reviews, 13 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Cesar primarily contributed to the `doctl` CLI, adding features related to VPC configuration for load balancers. These changes involved modifying the CLI commands to accept and utilize VPC UUIDs, affecting multiple files like `commands/load_balancers.go`, integration tests, and display logic. Further contributions included refactoring registry commands with new functionality for Docker config and adding integration tests.
command-line-toolapicommand-line-interfaceinfrastructurecloud
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