Rodrigo Estrada is a Generative AI Engineer and seasoned technology leader with over two decades of hands-on experience building scalable, data-driven systems across industries from retail and airlines to mining and finance. He blends deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, and data engineering with practical mastery of Go, Python, Java, Kubernetes, Kafka/RedPanda and major clouds (GCP, Azure, AWS). Rodrigo has led large platform transformations—designing internal developer platforms, Data Mesh architectures, and GitOps-driven automation—while also shipping production GenAI systems that combine classical ML (XGBoost) with agentic orchestration and RAG pipelines. Known for operational rigor, he pairs spec-driven, test-first delivery (including LLM-generated code and validation) with security-first and zero-trust networking practices. He’s equally comfortable mentoring teams and rolling up his sleeves to write infrastructure tooling in Go or platform automation with Terraform. A pragmatic innovator, Rodrigo’s career shows a recurring pattern of cutting costs and delivery time through automated, reproducible platform engineering.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science, Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing, Master of Science in Computer Science, Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
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