Javier Matías-cabrera
Principal Software Engineer at AbbVie
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJavier Matías-cabrera is a Principal Software Engineer based in New York with 14 years of experience building data and infrastructure systems across enterprises and startups. He has progressed from hands-on software roles at HPE to senior and lead data engineering positions at Thoughtworks and a founding data engineer stint at Nextdata, now driving architecture and delivery at AbbVie. Javier blends deep engineering rigor with DevOps sensibilities—evidenced by contributions to the popular Thoughtworks/talisman repo where he improved cross-platform installation and automation for secret-detection tooling. He is comfortable operating at the intersection of data, automation, and platform engineering, mentoring teams to ship reliable, secure systems. Fluently bicultural (Puerto Rican) and academically connected to UIUC and UPR-Mayagüez, he brings both pragmatic production experience and curiosity shaped by research and open-source engagement.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Software, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Software at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
git10
bash10
installers9
cicd9
install-script9
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
script9
docker8
windows8
dockers8
precommit7
pre-commit-hook7
go7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/talisman
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Using a pre-commit hook, Talisman validates the outgoing changeset for things that look suspicious — such as tokens, passwords, and private keys.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 5 reviews, 28 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Javier's primary contributions involve setting up and improving the project's infrastructure and automation capabilities. Their work includes modifying installation scripts to support different operating systems, including Git Bash on Windows, and updating the download mechanism to use the GitHub API for fetching binaries. Additionally, the user addressed issues with whitespace in file paths and implemented binary compression.
pushtokensgit-hookshuskygo
jmatias/uiuc-twitter-geolocation
Nov 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:55 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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