Diego Alvarez
Senior Software Developer at Chime
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Alvarez is a Senior Software Developer with over a decade of experience building reliable distributed systems and infrastructure, currently contributing at Chime from Vancouver. His career spans roles from hands-on development to software architecture and technical leadership at companies like Hootsuite and Sura, where he focused on scalable, production-ready systems. Diego combines deep operational know-how with development discipline, often bridging the gap between platform reliability and application delivery. Trained as a Computer Science Engineer, he brings a pragmatic, long-term view to system design and a track record of mentoring teams through complex migrations and reliability improvements.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineer (Ingeniero de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones), Computer Science Engineer (Ingeniero de Sistemas y Telecomunicaciones) at Universidad Autonoma de Manizales
English, Spanish
Github Skills (62)
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
vim10
emacs10
spacemacs10
rewrite9
sbt9
refactoring8
extensible8
formatter8
scala8
circuit8
modular7
textmate7
compiler-plugin7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hootsuite/scala-circuit-breaker
Dec 2015 - Aug 2017
A circuit breaker for Scala applications and services
Contributions:6 commits, 11 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 8 months
breakercircuit-breakerscalacircuit
hootsuite/sbt-swagger
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 13 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 4 months
to-jsonapiannotationssbt-pluginjax
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