Juan Plaza
Lead Architect, Simulations Platform
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJuan Plaza is a Lead Architect and seasoned platform engineer with over 20 years of experience designing and modernizing scalable, secure simulation and web platforms. He combines hands-on implementation—migrating legacy systems to GitLab CI/CD, containers, Helm/Kubernetes, and deep DataDog observability—with company-wide architecture strategy and compliance leadership (GDPR, CCPA, SOC2). Comfortable across stacks from PHP and MySQL to C#, Unity3D, and Linux ops, he has a track record of eliminating manual deployment risk through modular, deterministic systems and improving uptime during acquisitions and datacenter migrations. A pragmatic mentor, he establishes engineering standards like trunk-based development, automated security scans, and CI-driven release engineering while onboarding distributed teams. His background in computational physics and long-term open-source stewardship (MacPorts) hint at a methodical, systems-level mindset that favors resilient, auditable solutions.
21 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Cherwell School, OxfordBachelor, Computational Physics, Bachelor, Computational Physics at Universidad Central de VenezuelaColegio Emil Friedman
Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French
Stackoverflow
109reputation
54kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (58)
monitoring10
git10
socket-io10
docker10
macports10
monitor10
websocket10
responsive10
ports10
webapp10
angularjs10
command-line10
macos10
shell10
codemirror10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
macports/macports-www
Apr 2005 - Aug 2009
The MacPorts website
Contributions:244 commits in 4 years 4 months
macports
jmpalacios/macports-ports
Jan 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.