Javier Diaz-montes
Vice President, Software Engineering at Two Sigma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJavier Diaz-Montes is a Vice President of Software Engineering at Two Sigma with 15+ years applying research-grade expertise to production cloud and distributed systems. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and transitioned from leading the CometCloud research at Rutgers to shaping large-scale engineering at Two Sigma, bridging academia and industry. Javier’s work spans cloud, edge, IoT, streaming, virtualization and scheduling, and he brings a strong history of architecting federated, autonomic infrastructures for scientific and enterprise workflows. As an open-source contributor he’s made tangible impact on core container orchestration—adding FQDN hostname support to Kubernetes—demonstrating both deep systems skills and practical product-focused engineering. Based in New York, he combines mentoring and team leadership with hands-on backend development to deliver resilient, scalable platforms.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
container10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
testing10
system-design9
software-design9
sys9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 13 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Javier contributed to the Kubernetes project by implementing the "SetHostnameAsFQDN" feature. This involved adding a new field to the PodSpec to configure the pod's hostname as its FQDN, alongside updates to kubelet and related utilities to support this functionality. The changes included modifications across multiple core files related to pod specifications and feature gates. Furthermore, the user created and updated end-to-end tests to validate the correct behavior of the new feature.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
futuregrid/rain2-donotuse
Mar 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:999 commits in 11 months
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