Summary
Jose Villalta is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and container orchestration platforms at AWS, currently contributing to AWS Fargate and serverless containers. His background spans low-level firmware and RF modem software at Motorola, automated factory tooling at IBM, and high-throughput PC applications for RFID test lines—bringing deep systems, performance, and hardware-adjacent expertise to cloud infrastructure problems. A Marine Corps infantry sergeant veteran, he combines disciplined leadership and hands-on mentorship with technical rigor, having led teams and mentored junior engineers across multiple organizations. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (DSP), plus a Machine Learning certificate from the University of Washington, which he has applied to NLP and catalog-quality tooling in prior roles. Based in Seattle, he blends operational ownership with a track record of simplifying complex systems and shipping resilient services at scale.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Machine Learning, Computer Science and Engineering, Certificate of Machine Learning, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington
Colegio Salesiano Pio XII
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Florida Atlantic University
MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Digital Signal Processing), MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Digital Signal Processing) at University of Florida
Spanish, English, French, Portuguese