Sylvia Martinez
Engineering Team Lead at Remote
Völs, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolSylvia Martinez is an engineering team lead with 9 years of experience designing and shipping scalable, maintainable systems across cloud and virtualization platforms. She led and mentored small teams at HashiCorp, architecting HCP Packer services, webhooks, and operational SLO dashboards while driving product roadmaps and a Tech Scoping framework to improve planning and delivery. Deeply pragmatic in backend and infra work, she has hands-on expertise in Golang, Postgres, gRPC, AWS, and CI/CD, and contributed robustness and shutdown-handling improvements to the widely used open-source Packer project. Her background spans enterprise Java and microservices to infrastructure tooling, giving her a strong cross-stack perspective on reliability and developer experience. Based in Völs, Tyrol, she blends technical leadership with practical open-source contributions that improve real-world cloud image workflows.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, B.Sc. Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas GeraisScience without Borders Scholarship Program, Computer Science, Science without Borders Scholarship Program, Computer Science at University of Leicester
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (13)
go10
aws10
virtualbox9
api8
automations8
automation8
cicd8
apidoc8
hcl6
provisioning6
packer6
packer-builder6
hashicorp-packer6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/packer
Nov 2019 - Aug 2022
Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:689 reviews, 284 commits, 481 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Sylvia primarily contributed to improving the retry mechanisms within the AWS instance request process, enhancing the robustness of the system. They also addressed issues related to IAM instance profiles and removed unnecessary sleeps, demonstrating attention to code optimization. Furthermore, the user made changes to the virtualbox builder by adding a disable_shutdown option and improving the handling of the shutdown processes, showcasing proficiency in infrastructure configurations. These contributions indicate the user's involvement in both back-end logic related to AWS services and infrastructure management.
vagrantplatformslinuxpackerdocker
sylviamoss/diceware-cli
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
A command-line tool that generates strong passwords using diceware passphrase.
Contributions:6 releases, 32 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 2 months
command-line-toolpasswordspassword-generatorpassword-managerpassword
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