Yoel Diaz
Pincipal Software Architect at PlanHub
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYoel Diaz is a principal software architect and engineering leader with 13 years of experience and a proven record of designing cloud-native, high-throughput systems—most notably building a real-time DNS log streaming component that handled up to 20,000 events/second. He combines hands-on development (including contributions to the Akka remoting/Artery transport) with team-building and delivery-focused architecture, having accelerated development cycles through GitLab automated test pipelines and careful architectural ownership. A former academic with a PhD in Organic Chemistry and eight peer-reviewed publications, Yoel brings a rigorous, research-driven problem-solving style to distributed systems, DNS, and cloud infrastructure. He has progressed rapidly through technical and leadership roles at BlueCat and now serves as Principal Software Architect at PlanHub, blending deep technical craft with scalable org practices and a tendency to stay involved in last-mile design and code.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Organic Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Organic Chemistry at University of Birmingham
Github Skills (9)
actor10
akka10
remote-actors10
concurrency10
scala10
actor-model9
logging9
distributed-systems9
high-performance8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
akka/akka
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
A platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. SDK, libraries, and hosted environments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yoel focused on refining the Akka remoting functionality, specifically within the Artery transport. They addressed issues related to binding addresses, logging both listening and binding addresses to aid debugging, and corrected spelling errors. The user also improved the logging output by consolidating multiple log statements. The changes primarily focused on modifying the `ArteryTransport.scala` file to improve the logging and address address-related issues, demonstrating a clear focus on improving the system's behavior.
resilientactor-modelreactiveconcurrentdistributed-actors
yoeluk/paper-scala-js
Apr 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
scalascala-jsbinding
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