David Montoya
Staff Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Montoya is a Staff Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating cloud-native, distributed systems across startups and consultancy environments. He has driven resilience and scalability at Expel—progressing from SRE to Software Architect—and now focuses on platform engineering at Huntress, specializing in SaaS infrastructure at global scale. Comfortable across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes and telemetry/chaos tooling, he blends hands-on engineering with platform stewardship to accelerate delivery and harden operations. A polyglot and former Thoughtworks consultant, he’s skilled at slicing monoliths, operationalizing microservices and implementing event-driven architectures—often surfacing subtle operational risks before they impact customers. Based in Chicago, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a history of mentoring teams and introducing testing and automation practices in production environments.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Information Technology, Engineer's degree, Information Technology at Politécnico Colombiano 'Jaime Isaza Cadavid'
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (163)
go-api10
pipeline10
logging10
aws-cloudtrail9
continuous-delivery9
vault9
sdk9
helm9
api9
terraform9
terraform-provider9
docker9
devops9
integrate9
continuous-deployment9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
davidmontoyago/go-grpc-api-lab
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
gRPC go experiments and features examples
Contributions:43 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
golangprotobufgrpcgrpc-goprotos
davidmontoyago/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:55 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
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