Héctor Flores is a Platform Architect with nine years of experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-native systems across enterprise and AI-focused companies. He has held progressive roles at Intel, Oracle, C3 AI, EPAM, and now Slalom, blending hands-on DevOps engineering with architecture-level decision making for high-availability platforms. Comfortable across major cloud providers and modern infrastructure tooling, Héctor focuses on resilience, scalability, and streamlining developer workflows to accelerate delivery. His academic background includes a Master of Computer Science from UIUC and dual bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering, reflecting strong systems and hardware-aware thinking. Known for translating complex requirements into pragmatic infrastructure solutions, he brings both startup agility and enterprise rigor to platform problems. Based in Zapopan, Mexico, Héctor pairs international experience with a practical engineering mindset that anticipates operational failure modes before they surface.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara
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