Summary
Paola Socorro is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently focused on reliability and automation at Squarespace. She has a deep background in Kubernetes, Linux administration, and container orchestration, having managed multi-tenant clusters and monitoring across 1,900+ Target store locations. Paola pairs hands-on debugging of production incidents with a proven ability to design resilient platform services—authored Go tools like an Edge Broker and platform metrics services to improve deployment visibility. She also mentors engineers and interns, blending technical leadership with practical coaching. Her career began in game art and web development, a creative foundation that informs pragmatic engineering and user-focused tooling.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Game Art and Design, 3.8, Bachelors of Science, Game Art and Design, 3.8 at Art Institute of California-Los Angeles
Fellowship in Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Fellowship in Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Hackbright Academy
Certificate, Computer Programming, Certificate, Computer Programming at Mt. San Antonio College
Spanish