Summary
Tomás Kehoe is a Senior Software Engineer and educator based in Buenos Aires with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering scalable backend and distributed systems. He has led teams and driven cloud and messaging architectures—designing Kafka-based message buses, provisioning multi-tenant Elasticsearch clusters, and stabilizing platform services at scale for companies like Despegar and Medallia. Equally at home mentoring and teaching, he’s been a long-running teaching assistant for Computer Organization at the University of Buenos Aires while also running engineering teams and bootstrapping platform services in production. His work blends deep operational know-how (Kafka, Elasticsearch, Hadoop/Spark, Kubernetes) with a pragmatic focus on observability, automation and stakeholder-driven solutions. A mathematically trained engineer with ongoing data science study, he brings both rigorous analytical thinking and practical execution to complex distributed systems problems.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diplomatura en Ciencias de Datos Data science , Diplomatura en Ciencias de Datos Data science at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Ingeniería en informática. Computers Software Engineering, Ingeniería en informática. Computers Software Engineering at University of Buenos Aires
English, French, German