Hugo Villalba
Staff Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Argentina
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Top SchoolHugo Villalba is a Staff Software Engineer with nine years of focused experience in event-driven architecture, data streaming and ETL pipelines, and device-to-cloud/cloud-to-on-prem microservices. He has led Kafka-centric platforms using Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect and ksqlDB across security and enterprise domains at Proofpoint, McAfee and Intel. Hugo combines deep systems-level experience from early C++ and embedded work with recent cloud-native event streaming practices, enabling reliable, high-throughput data flows between edge devices and cloud services. He is based in Argentina and brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by long tenures in large product organizations. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed systems requirements into maintainable, production-grade streaming architectures. Beyond hands-on design, he often bridges operations and development needs to ensure observability and resilience in mission-critical pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Informática, Licenciatura en Informática at Universidad Blas Pascal
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
databus9
java-client8
java8
sink7
streaming7
windows6
webview6
javascript6
apache-kafka6
guid6
windows-runtime6
kafka-cluster5
monitoring4
kafka3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mcafee/management-sdk-for-kafka
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
It is a set of Java APIs to operate and monitoring a Kafka cluster
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
sinkapache-kafkaoperatekafka-clusterkafka
opendxl/opendxl-streaming-client-java
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
opendxl-streaming-client-java
Contributions:63 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years
javastreaming-clientstreamingjava-client
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