Luis Pérez
Software Engineer at Yelp
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Pérez is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems, currently at Yelp in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with concentrations in AI and Systems & Architecture, and favors Python while enjoying learning new languages. His work spans backend engineering and DevOps, including contributions to Yelp’s open-source PaaSTA platform where he improved deployment checks, autoscaling handling, and logging reliability. Prior roles at Qualcomm and as a long-time teaching assistant reflect strong systems fundamentals and mentorship experience. He combines hands-on operational improvements with a thoughtful systems perspective, often focusing on making distributed deployments more robust and observable.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
kubernetes10
docker10
devops10
paas10
dockers10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
python9
autoscaling9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1176 reviews, 355 commits, 378 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Luis contributed to the PaaSTA platform by modifying and refining various deployment and operational aspects of the system. They made changes to the `check` command, removing performance checks from the deployment process. They also removed references to "generate-pipeline" and improved the handling of autoscale. In addition, the user improved the reliability of the logging for different components of the tool.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
Yelp/behave
Dec 2021 - Mar 2025
BDD, Python style.
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
pythonbddpython-style
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