Summary
Sebastian Quesada is a pragmatic software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable backend services, currently focused at Microsoft where he works on Outlook Calendar backend systems. He has strong systems and networking expertise from multiple roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, including leading Golang services that improved database integrity and performance—work that contributed to a granted patent. Comfortable across C, C++ and Go, Sebastian has designed diagnostics and monitoring tools for complex, real-time networked environments and helped drive cross-team requirements and test plans. Trained in machine learning at Georgia Tech and grounded in computer engineering from Tecnológico de Costa Rica, he brings a blend of rigorous academic training and hands-on production engineering. Notably, he moves between deep systems-level problem solving and pragmatic service design, making him effective at turning complex architectures into maintainable, high-performance services.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Computer Engineering, Licentiate degree Computer Engineering at Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Master's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of Technology