José Palacios
Staff Software Engineer
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosé Palacios is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building web-scale backend systems and production infrastructure. He specializes in algorithms, data structures, and high-performance JVM and Python services, with hands-on expertise in AWS and scalable observability stacks. José has driven reliability and user-experience improvements at scale, from reducing bad experiences across Facebook’s family of apps to architecting order-management and human-tasking systems at Verizon. He advances platform-level solutions and performance tuning while also delivering RESTful integrations and responsive UIs, reflecting a full-stack operational mindset. Now at Engine after senior roles at Upside and Facebook, he combines deep systems knowledge with pragmatic engineering tradeoffs. An early researcher in privacy-preserving access control, he brings a detail-oriented approach to real-world security and data challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Colegio de la SalleBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
English, Spanish
Github Skills (66)
database10
strings10
redis10
nosql9
data-model9
key-value9
lists9
message-broker9
in-memory9
fst9
disk9
feed8
entity8
websocket8
in-memory-database8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
j-diaz/outlet
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
jdiaz/pysquirrel
Jan 2019 - Oct 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 3 years 9 months
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