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<h2>Professional experience</h2>

<p>
  <em>(Since 2022)</em>:
  <strong>Principal Software Engineer at <a href="https://midokura.com/">Midokura</a></strong>.
  We build systems to orchestrate, monitor and manage GPU servers and high-bandwidth network
  fabric for AI workloads, deployed in private datacenters. On an earlier project, I worked
  for ~3y on Sony's Edge AI sensing platform, managing fleets of cameras with intelligent sensors
  running AI vision models, and streaming real-time inferences to the cloud. Notable projects:
  <ul>
    <li>
      Design and implement systems to automate provisioning, management
      and operations of GPU infrastructure deployed in private
      datacenters, as well as multi-tenant IaaS/PaaS layers to
      commoditize AI workload orchestration.
    </li>
    <li>
      Re-architected core backend systems (MQTT, Kafka, JVM-based) for
      real-time inference streaming. Achieved 100x performance
      improvements, with lower resource footprint.
    </li>
    <li>
      Modernized release engineering and test strategy from fragile manual QA to
      automated delivery pipelines, reducing cycle time by 50%+ in
      complex embedded/cloud systems spanning distributed EU-JP teams
    </li>
  </ul>
</p>
<p>
  <em>(2020-2022)</em>:
  <strong>Principal Software Engineer at <a href="https://newrelic.com/">New Relic</a></strong>.
  Embedded in internal platform teams managing entity inventory (hosts,
  containers, services, etc.), metadata and relationships. 
  <ul>
    <li>
      Maintained critical infrastructure supporting most of New Relic's
      observability experience. Regularly in the critical path
      for ~50-75% of top-level company OKRs, and user-facing <a
        href="https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/licenses/license-information/referenced-policies/service-level-availability-commitment/">99.8% SLAs</a>.
    </li>
    <li>
      Led design and implementation of high-throughput telemetry
      analysis system that processed millions of datapoints per second,
      inferring entity types and relationships from <a
      href="https://github.com/newrelic/entity-definitions/">open, configurable
      rules</a>.
    </li>
  </ul>
</p>
<p>
  <em>(2016-2020)</em>:
  <strong>Staff/Principal engineer at <a href="https://adevinta.com">Adevinta</a></strong>.
    Joined as lead in the Engineering Productivity team, and 
    later became Technical Product Manager of Adevinta's internal
    developer platform. Served 1500+ engineers across major online
    marketplaces in Europe and South America. 
    <ul>
      <li>
        Ideated, built and scaled developer tooling ahead of commercial
        alternatives (e.g. automated dependency propagation, developer
        metrics platform, etc.). Growing organically, from 0
        to hundreds of users with measurable productivity gains.
      </li>
      <li>
        Consolidated fragmented Infrastructure-as-a-Service projects
        (observability, kubernetes runtimes, etc.) into a cohesive PaaS
        that covered development, delivery and operations. (I published
        <a href="{{ site.baseUrl }}/paas/infrastructure/platform/kubernetes/cloud/2020/01/02/talk-how-to-build-a-paas-for-1500-engineers.html">a piece about the platform</a>).
      </li>
      <li>
        Led platform migration of several marketplaces from on-premise
        infrastructure and EC2 to Kubernetes-based PaaS, reducing
        runtime and operational overhead and amplifying domain expertise
        from local teams to achieve impact across the wider organization. (I
        published some
        <a href="{{ site.baseUrl }}/kubernetes/eureka/paas/microservices/loadbalancing/2020/02/12/eureka-kubernetes.html">technical</a>
        <a href="{{ site.baseUrl
          }}/kubernetes/migration/latency/dns/java/aws/microservices/2019/10/22/kubernetes-added-a-0-to-my-latency.html">articles</a>
        about the experience.)
      </li>
    </ul>
</p>
<p>
  <em>(2013-2016)</em>:
  <strong>Senior Software Engineer at <a href="https://midokura.com/">Midokura</a></strong>.
  Core contributor and technical lead on distributed network
  virtualization system for OpenStack, implementing SDN control plane
  and data plane components.
  <ul>
    <li>Designed and implemented distributed network protocols in the
      network agent: L2/VxLAN gateways, NAT, Floating IP, Spanning Tree
      Protocol.
    </li>
    <li>
      Integrated control plane with hardware VTEP switches, enabling
      seamless physical-virtual network integration at scale (<a
        href="https://www.midokura.com/hardware-vtep/">feature
        docs</a>).
    </li>
  </ul>
</p>
<p>
  <em>(Prior to 2013)</em>: I worked as a software engineer building
  infrastructure for telcos, and backend services for high volume sites.
  At <a href="https://last.fm/">Last.fm</a>, I managed the
  systems responsible to ingest and serve the world's largest music
  catalogue at the time. At <a href="https://tuenti.com/">Tuenti</a> I
  worked on backend systems behind groups, business and location sites.
</p>
<p>
  For more details, <a href="mailto:anglorvaroa@gmail.com">get in touch.</a>
</p>