Juan Plaza
Lead Architect, Simulations Platform
New York, New York, United States
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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
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Github Skills (81)
libgit210
macports10
freedesktop10
websocket10
publish10
subversion10
vms10
monitoring10
hacklang10
git-lfs10
mailing10
mailing-list10
webapp10
shell10
cli10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
macports/macports-www
Apr 2005 - Aug 2009
The MacPorts website
Contributions:244 commits in 4 years 4 months
macosmacports
jmpalacios/git
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 1 day
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