# Mateo Alvarez

Staff Platform Engineer | Austin, TX | mateo.alvarez@example.com | github.com/mateoalvarez

## Technical Summary

Platform engineer with 9 years of experience building reliable developer infrastructure for high-volume products. Specializes in Kubernetes, distributed systems, observability, and paved-road tooling that improves both delivery speed and production safety.

## Technical Skills

**Languages:** Go, Python, TypeScript, SQL  
**Platforms:** Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Terraform  
**Practices:** SRE, distributed tracing, incident response, performance engineering

## Experience

### Staff Platform Engineer
Harborline Technologies Inc. | Austin | 2021 – Present
- Designed the multi-region control plane handling 2.4B API requests per day at 99.99% availability
- Cut median service bootstrap time from 3 days to 24 minutes with a typed developer platform
- Led reliability reviews that reduced priority-one incidents by 43% year over year

### Senior Software Engineer
Orchid Data Systems LLC | Denver | 2017 – 2021
- Built a Kafka-based ingestion layer sustaining 1.8M events per second during peak traffic
- Introduced distributed tracing across 70 services and reduced mean time to resolution by 36%

## Selected Projects

### Driftwatch
Open-source Terraform policy engine | 2023 – Present
- Maintains 2,300 GitHub stars, 28 contributors, and adapters for five CI platforms

## Education

### B.S. in Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin | 2017