Mario Sotil
Principal Engineer at Coalition, Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMario Sotil is a Principal Engineer based in Vancouver with over two decades of systems-building experience and more than a decade focused on backend and distributed systems. He has led large rearchitectures and data-centralization efforts that delivered multi-fold improvements in development speed and operational burden, and at Amazon designed automated ML and image-processing pipelines that scaled to billions of images per day. Comfortable across Python, Go, Java and cloud-native tooling, he combines hands-on coding with cross-team coordination and mentoring in global, multi-timezone projects. An open-source-minded practitioner, he has improved tooling such as awscurl to tighten AWS compatibility and binary correctness, reflecting his attention to correctness and interoperability. Describing himself as an "existentialist software developer," he brings a pragmatic, systems-first mindset to solving complex reliability, data, and ML engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Graduate at Claretiano High SchoolEngineer IT, Engineer IT at UAGRM Oficial
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
1,964reputation
628kreached
34answers
29questions
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Github Skills (19)
python10
aws10
curl10
testing9
debugging9
pytest9
php9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
hashlib7
database6
sql6
database-design6
kubectl6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
okigan/awscurl
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
curl-like access to AWS resources with AWS Signature Version 4 request signing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Mario primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and correctness of the `awscurl` tool. Their contributions included refactoring parameter names for consistency with `curl`, improving the handling of binary data payloads, and addressing Python 3 compatibility issues in the test suite. They also fixed binary data treatment in hashing functions. These changes improved the tool's compatibility, functionality, and overall correctness.
awsaws-signaturecurl
mariosotil/river-framework
Nov 2014 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 release, 217 commits, 196 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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