Derek Argueta
Senior Software Engineer Traffic Infrastructure at Airbnb
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Argueta is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating traffic infrastructure and distributed systems for high-scale products, most recently managing ingress, CDN, DNS, and GSLB at Airbnb after four years enabling connectivity for over 4 million Tesla vehicles. He specializes in traffic engineering, proxies, and network protocols and writes production systems in Go, Rust, and C++, with notable open-source contributions to the Envoy proxy around access logging and internal redirects. Derek combines hands-on SRE and SWE skills—deploying Envoy at Pinterest as an ingress/service-mesh, migrating multi-CDN networks, and scaling mobile API platforms—with security-minded engineering practices. Based in Austin, he enjoys infrastructure-first problems and developer tooling, and he’s motivated by accelerating the transition to sustainable energy. An underappreciated detail: his academic work on DNS rate limiting informed both measurement tooling and practical defensive strategies used in production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Klein Oak High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) [incomplete] Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) [incomplete] Computer Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
121reputation
31kreached
6answers
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Github Skills (15)
access-log10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
code-formatting9
http9
api-design7
security7
html6
fancybox6
selenium-webdriver6
selenium6
haproxy6
python6
airprint6
python-requests6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
May 2017 - Sep 2021
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 127 commits, 157 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily contributed to the Envoy proxy project by implementing and improving access logging functionality, including adding the ability to format the start time variable and enhancing the handling of internal redirects. They also made minor documentation fixes and addressed code style issues, such as the removal of deprecated constructors and the correction of typos. The user's contributions suggest an understanding of the underlying security aspects within the project.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
derekargueta/Personal-Site
Jul 2014 - Mar 2020
Contributions:91 commits, 9 PRs, 68 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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