Manuel Nila
Senior IT Engineer at Duolingo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorManuel Nila is a Senior IT Engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience building secure, scalable infrastructure and automation for high-traffic products. He has engineered microservices and deployed infrastructure supporting millions of daily learners at Duolingo and previously led cloud security and compliance automation at BuzzFeed using Python, Go, Terraform, and Ansible. Manuel blends hands-on development of novel AI applications with rigorous security practices, auditing dozens of SaaS and in-house services to maintain compliance at scale. He’s comfortable across cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and languages, and brings a curiosity-driven approach honed at the Recurse Center that fuels unconventional, practical solutions. An understated strength is his ability to translate compliance requirements into automated, developer-friendly workflows that reduce risk without slowing delivery.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (39)
socket-io10
javascript10
react-native10
web-application10
python10
electron10
typescript10
websocket10
apache10
chat10
zulip10
slack10
nodejs10
collaboration10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
manila/zulip-api-rust-client
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:43 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
manila/block-push
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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