Miguel Pilar
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Okta
Puerto Rico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMiguel Pilar is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating scalable web systems, currently driving reliability at Okta after a long tenure in identity and infrastructure at Auth0. He blends system administration, software engineering, and architecture expertise to optimize performance and migrate teams from monoliths to API-driven, cloud-native platforms. At GFR Media he led critical infrastructure changes—removing vendor lock-in, introducing auto-provisioned caching layers, and architecting for rapid traffic shifts—which showcase his pragmatic focus on operational resilience. Comfortable across front- and back-end development, Miguel brings a rare mix of developer empathy and SRE discipline that helps teams ship faster without sacrificing stability. Based in Puerto Rico, he pairs formal CS training with practical experience in optimization and scalability to solve complex production challenges.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Computer Science, Psychology, Associate's Degree, Computer Science, Psychology at University of North FloridaB.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science, Physics, Psychology, B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science, Physics, Psychology at University of Central Florida
English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (60)
image10
photo10
thumbor10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
aws10
terraform-module10
node-library9
authentication9
nodejs9
database9
mongodb9
transform8
aws-sam8
serverless-applications8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mpilar/thumbor
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 9 months
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mpilar/auth0-instrumentation
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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