Specialist in traffic engineering (CDNs, proxies, network protocols) and distributed systems. I enjoy infrastructure work and writing software in Go, Rust, or C++. Envoy code-owner for * oauth2 HTTP extension * AWS request signing HTTP extension https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/commits/main/?author=derekargueta

2024 — NowAirbnbSenior Software Engineer | Traffic Infrastructure

2024 — Now

Austin, Texas, United States

edge infra - CDN, DNS, GSLB, and ingress load balancers

2020 — 2024TeslaSenior Software Engineer | Fleet Net

2020 — 2024

Austin, Texas, United States

Worked on the server-side systems that enable connectivity to over 4 million vehicles for everything from remote diagnostics to mobile app commands.

Primarily worked on:

mobile app API platform & ingress gateway

Tesla Developer API - https://developer.tesla.com/docs

remote vehicle capabilities research & development

mobile push notification infrastructure

debugging production mobile app & vehicle software issues

scaling our application infrastructure to handle growth

Wrote code in: Ruby (on Rails), Go, JavaScript (React), and C++

Technologies used: Redis, Kafka, Envoy, Nginx, Kubernetes, MySQL, MongoDB, gRPC

Envoy Contributions:

* internal redirects w/ POST body payloads: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/15634

* fix regex for access log variable: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/15256

2017 — 2020PinterestSite Reliability Engineer | Traffic Infrastructure

2017 — 2020

San Francisco Bay Area

Part of a 3-4 person team that managed all ingress infrastructure (CDN/DNS/GSLB/load-balancing) and took on the challenge of building an Envoy-based service mesh to handle Pinterest-scale service-to-service traffic.

Launched Envoy as the ingress and service mesh proxy for a VM-based environment (hot restart across Docker containers, OSS contributions, numerous internal extensions including OAuth support, wrote tooling for validating configuration changes, deployment scripting, wrote a tcollector module to consume Envoy metrics, etc.)

Onboarded a CDN vendor to Pinterest's multi-CDN edge network

Helped productionize and launch numerous Pinterest projects such as https://trends.pinterest.com

Migrated CDN/DNS configurations to be managed with Terraform

Migrated the ingress cloud load balancers from AWS ELBs to AWS NLBs

Handled day-to-day operations including CDN changes, DNS changes, GSLB changes, renewing TLS certificates, acquiring and onboarding new domains, etc.

Implemented Zipkin tracing through the CDN to have client-to-edge and edge-to-origin spans

Speaker at EnvoyCon 2018 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=4x5WjxAMvKY)

Keynote Speaker at KubeCon EU 2020 (https://youtube.com/watch?v=CoLionpKa9c)

Participated in a 24/7 on-call rotation

Wrote code in: C++, Go, Python, JavaScript (DNS-based GSLB, not UI work), Bash

Technologies used: Nginx, Envoy, Varnish, Jenkins, Terraform, various traffic vendors, AWS, Zookeeper

2017 — 2017Brigham Young UniversityResearch Assistant

2017 — 2017

Provo, Utah Area

Worked in the Internet Measurement and Anti-Abuse Lab under Dr. Casey Deccio (https://imaal.byu.edu/)

Second author of "A Quantitative Study of the Deployment of DNS Rate Limiting." (ICNC 2019)

Implemented a DNS rate limiting observation system in Go. The system observed the Alexa top 1 million domains and attempted brute-force A and AAAA queries against the authoritative nameserver for each domain and recorded the observed threshold where nameservers would begin blocking queries.

2016 — 2017Brigham Young UniversityTeaching Assistant

2016 — 2017

Provo, Utah Area

CS 235 - Data Structures (trees, lists, sorting algorithms, C++)

CS 330 - Concepts of Programming Languages (Racket, Julia, Prolog, Erlang, Haskell)

Education

2013 — 2017

Brigham Young University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) [incomplete]

2013 — 2017

2009 — 2013

Klein Oak High School

2009 — 2013

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) [incomplete]