Miguel Velez
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarMiguel Velez is a Senior Software Engineer (L5) at Google with 11 years of experience building robust backend systems and distributed services from research prototypes to production. He holds advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon, including PhD-level work in software engineering, and has a track record of internships-to-hire progression at Google that highlights deep domain expertise and consistent delivery. Miguel contributes to notable open-source projects like CDAP, improving service discovery and resiliency in data analytics frameworks, reflecting a focus on reliability and developer tooling. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he blends academic rigor with practical engineering, and his work emphasizes thoughtful trade-offs—eschewing premature optimization while hardening critical system paths. An eclectic background spanning research, teaching, and product engineering gives him a knack for translating complex problems into maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (17)
apim10
api-design10
java10
javas10
service-discovery10
api10
cdap9
cli9
testing8
gnupg6
maven6
eclipse6
upsert6
documentation6
warnings6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cdapio/cdap
May 2019 - Jul 2019
An open source framework for building data analytic applications.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:286 commits, 37 PRs, 353 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Miguel contributed to backend development by adding an option to set the number of retries for service discovery in the CLI. They also modified the code to allow discovery of services running in the system namespace and added default implementations for a new interface method. Additionally, the user made changes to several supporting files, including those related to service discovery and testing. These changes likely improve the robustness and flexibility of the CDAP framework.
integrationpythonanalyticsanalyticjava-8
mijecu25/sqlplus
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:166 pushes, 15 branches, 32 issues in 9 months
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