Justin Alvarez
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Alvarez is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building backend and full-stack systems, currently focused on cloud infrastructure at AWS from 2019 onward. He’s proficient in Go, Java, React, and Vue, and has a strong practical background in DevOps and VM tooling evidenced by substantive contributions to the popular lima-vm project (adding provisioning modes, WSL2 fixes, and VZ driver enhancements). Based in Miami, he blends production-grade backend engineering with frontend sensibilities, enabling end-to-end delivery of features. His career spans enterprise and startup environments, from Lennar to MediaQuery.io, and includes early hands-on automation work during an Intel internship. A self-described “music nerd” who brings curiosity and collaborative energy to cross-functional teams, he also leverages academic experience in computer science from Florida International University. Notably, he gravitates toward solving low-level infrastructure problems that materially improve developer workflows.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Florida International University - College of Engineering & Computing
English, Chinese, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
qemu10
go10
wsl210
vms10
dockers9
bash9
docker9
containerd9
automations8
macos8
apidoc8
api8
automation8
http6
winforms6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lima-vm/lima
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 2 commits, 18 PRs in 25 days
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and configuration of the `lima-vm/lima` project. Their work included adding new provisioning modes and features, such as the "boot" and "dependency" modes, which enhance the flexibility of the virtual machine setup. They also made changes to improve network daemon handling, including fixes for WSL2 integration. Furthermore, the user modified the project's configuration to allow overriding of Rosetta features and mount additional disks using the VZ driver.
containerscontainerdmachineslinuxvirtual-machines
pendo324/finch-core
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Core dependencies for Finch
Contributions:44 pushes, 31 branches in 2 years 2 months
dependenciesfinch
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