Diego Pacheco
Head Of Architecture at ilegra
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Pacheco is a seasoned Brazilian software architect and engineering leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15+ years of hands-on and strategic experience building cloud-native, high-throughput distributed systems. As Head of Nearshore Engineering and Lead Architect at LendingClub he runs a 100-person nearshore organization, drives large-scale migrations and cryptographic/security transformations, and has spearheaded hundreds of AI and agent POCs to fast-track developer productivity. He blends deep technical breadth—Java/Scala/Go/Rust, observability, Kubernetes/EKS, NetflixOSS, NoSQL and AWS services—with a decade-long practice of mentoring, agile coaching and talent development through coding dojos, design forums and architecture communities. An active contributor to ops-focused open-source like Dynomite, Diego pairs pragmatic DevOps improvements with architectural leadership, and is known for shipping high-risk migrations with strong observability and zero P0 incidents. Outside work he keeps skills sharp via POCs, blogging and teaching, reflecting a persistent curiosity for new languages and functional programming.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
ULBRAComputers, Computers at Gensa
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (9)
c1710
configuration-management10
environment-variables10
c1110
redis9
key-value8
devops8
nosql7
distributed-database7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Netflix/dynomite
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
A generic dynamo implementation for different k-v storage engines
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 36 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Diego primarily focused on enhancing the system's configuration and deployment aspects. They introduced environment variable support for dynamic configuration of the Florida component. The user also made several revisions to the `dyn_florida.c` file to enable dynamic IP, port, and request configurations via environment variables. In addition, they added scripts to manage Redis instances using Dynomite-Manager, demonstrating a contribution to system operation.
golangdynomitenosqlredisgeneric
diegopacheco/typescript-playground
Aug 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:114 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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