Nicolas Mesa
Cofounder & CTO at Veleiro AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicolas Mesa is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building scalable SaaS and cloud-native systems across startups and tech giants. Currently Cofounder & CTO of Veleiro AI after multiple senior engineering roles at Amazon and Meta, he combines hands-on full-stack delivery with a strong focus on operational excellence, automation, and secure service design. He has a track record of reducing cycle times and production incidents—shipping automation that sped cluster provisioning 90% and implemented automated rollbacks and readiness reviews to improve availability. Early-stage experience as the first engineer at Alegra gave him deep product instincts and end-to-end ownership, from payments to infrastructure. Based in San Francisco and holding an MS in Computer Science from Columbia, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with mentorship and a knack for translating complex systems into practical, reliable workflows.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia
Spanish, English
Github Skills (28)
sandbox10
sd-card10
virtual-machine10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
raspberry10
assembler10
virtualization10
armv810
raspberry-pi-os10
serverless10
operating-system10
firecracker9
bare-metal9
osdev9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
nicolasmesa/PiOS
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Toy RPi Kernel for learning purposes
Contributions:60 commits, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
kernelrpitoylinuxmulticore
nicolasmesa/Accountit
Nov 2017 - Jun 2021
Toy accounting project to practice Django
Contributions:3 PRs, 4 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
djangoaccountingtoypython
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