# Derek Argueta

> Edge Infra @ Airbnb

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/derekargueta

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer | Traffic Infrastructure @ Airbnb
Jan 2024 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States
edge infra - CDN, DNS, GSLB, and ingress load balancers

### Senior Software Engineer | Fleet Net @ Tesla
Jan 2020 – Jan 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

### Site Reliability Engineer | Traffic Infrastructure @ Pinterest
Jan 2017 – Jan 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

### Research Assistant @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2017 – Jan 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.

### Teaching Assistant @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Provo, Utah Area
CS 235 - Data Structures (trees, lists, sorting algorithms, C++)
CS 330 - Concepts of Programming Languages (Racket, Julia, Prolog, Erlang, Haskell)

### Software Engineering Intern | Visibility Infrastructure @ Pinterest
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California
Core Infrastructure - Cloud Core Services

Visibility team, working on the monitoring infrastructure. Implemented a tool for previewing alert configurations against historical timeseries data to improve threshold accuracy - not too noisy and not too silent. Rewrote portions of the Jinja based application into React, laying the groundwork for integrating d3.js and React.

Wrote code in: Python, JavaScript (React)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Domo, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | American Fork, UT
iOS/Mobile team
- Performance profiling and improvements
- Integration of third-party extensions such as 1Password
- Bug fixes

Wrote code in: Swift

### QA Engineering Intern @ Domo, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | American Fork, UT
- Wrote automated integration tests using Groovy, Geb, and Spock.
- Wrote automated unit tests with JavaScript, Karma, and AngularJS
- Ran regression tests.
- Built internal automation tools for the QA team.

Wrote code in: Groovy, Python, Go, JavaScript (AngularJS)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Verisage
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Provo, Utah
- Full-stack iOS and Web development
- Ran my own devops to deploy across all ends to a Linux server and TestFlight
- Over 90% test coverage
- Linux automation using cron and Python


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) [incomplete] in Computer Science
Brigham Young University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Klein Oak High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/derekarg
- Website: http://www.dargueta.com
- Website: https://www.pinterest.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/derekargueta

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Last updated: 2026-03-22