Diego Cepeda
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Cepeda is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with 11 years of experience building reliable, scalable backend services and improving full‑stack user experiences. He progressed from SRE to senior and staff engineering roles, focusing on incident tracking, global stats, and paging/messaging platforms such as LinkedIn’s Iris and Oncall, where he contributed both backend logic and front‑end UX improvements. Based in Chicago, he combines deep systems reliability expertise with hands‑on feature development and test improvements, bridging operational rigor and product delivery. Outside of work he serves on the board of the Chicago Council on Science and Technology, bringing technical strategy to community science outreach—an example of his interest in making infrastructure and technology accessible beyond engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Spanish, English
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
python10
apidoc10
user-interface10
api10
front-end-development10
jinja29
css9
sql9
user-experience9
html9
backend8
database-design8
back-end-development8
handlebars8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/oncall
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Oncall is a calendar tool designed for scheduling and managing on-call shifts. It can be used as source of dynamic ownership info for paging systems like http://iris.claims.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 84 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Diego implemented new functionality to the Oncall application, including descriptive page titles and user search capabilities, enhancing the user interface and navigation. They modified the application's frontend code (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) to incorporate features such as a login splash page and improved the user experience. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the backend search functionality and endpoint tests.
oncallownershipcalendarschedulingon-call
linkedin/iris
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Iris is a highly configurable and flexible service for paging and messaging.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:70 reviews, 340 commits, 335 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the backend of the `linkedin/iris` repository, focusing on incident tracking and global stats calculations. Their work involved implementing Jinja validation for incident tracking, adding the ability to calculate global stats offline, and modifying the API to incorporate these changes. They also addressed database retrieval failures and made improvements to the schema, and added user slack id retrieval.
golangconfigurablepagingirisautomation
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