Elton Pinto
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElton Pinto is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with over 8 years of experience building large-scale, highly available systems across Amazon and AWS. He has deep expertise in EC2, Spot, Auto Scaling and flexible compute features, having contributed to launches like Hibernation for On-Demand EC2, Capacity Rebalance, Karpenter, and EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. Elton's background spans content storage, massive clickstream processing, and email infrastructure, giving him a strong track record of migrating costly systems to simpler, more efficient platforms without customer impact. He pairs hands-on engineering with cross-team technical guidance, often embedding with product teams to shape customer-facing experiences for cost and capacity optimization. Notably, he moves between long-term platform evolution and short-term mission launches, balancing operational support with new feature delivery.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (18)
autoscaling10
kubernetes10
kubernetes-node10
nodejs10
k8s10
flexibility10
angular8
react8
typescript8
javascript8
amazon5
amazon-ec24
agent4
web-performance4
aws4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eptiger/karpenter-provider-aws
Aug 2021 - Sep 2024
Kubernetes Node Autoscaling: built for flexibility, performance, and scalability.
Contributions:50 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 1 month
hands-onrolloutautoscalingperformancek8s
aws/ec2-hibernate-linux-agent
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
A Hibernating Agent for Linux on Amazon EC2
Contributions:6 reviews, 1 commit, 1 PR in 1 day
ec2amazon-ec2agentamazonlinux
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