GitHub: https://github.com/diego-urgell

2024 — NowMetaSoftware Engineer

2024 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

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2023 — 2024StoriSoftware Engineer

2023 — 2024

Mexico City, Mexico

Implemented an observability framework to enable performance monitoring of money movement systems. Provides performance and business logic metadata per transaction (2M+/month) at near real time (5 mins delay). Used AWS services like Kinesis Data Firehose, Glue Data Catalog, and Redshift Spectrum.

Created advanced dashboard to provide visibility of money movements systems to business and engineering teams. Set up critical alerts to identify system downtime about 5 minutes after an incident.

2022 — 2023StoriSoftware Engineer Intern

2022 — 2023

Mexico City, Mexico

Co-developed a platform to process multi-provider inbound interbank payments, persist them, and process them with a multiple core banking systems. Used Golang and AWS CDK (Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS) with CDK. Guarantees idempotency and resiliency to DB, Infra, or provider outages. Product teams interact with the simplified API rather than providers and cores directly.

Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline to automate database deployments in the QA environment. Used Liquibase, Jenkins, Shell, GitHub Actions, and Node.js. Eliminated schema drift between QA and PROD databases enabling reliable testing, and simplified developer workflows by reducing manual SQL DDL execution. Onboarded the whole tech organization to the new flow.

2022 — 2022MetaSoftware Engineer Intern

2022 — 2022

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Rewrote a node of Meta's Continuous Deployment (CD) system. It allows developers to execute highly customized steps on a pipeline by providing a job configuration. Used Rust to improve robustness and efficiency over the existing Python implementation.

2021 — 2022StoriSoftware Engineer Intern

2021 — 2022

Mexico City, Mexico

Backend developer at the card delivery and payments teams. I automate manual processes and develop APIs for new features, as well as refactor and optimize existing ones. I use AWS, Python, Airflow, Github, and Grafana on a daily basis. In addition to development, my work also includes monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the existing resources in my team's stacks.

Education

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Ingenieria en Tecnologías Computacionales

International Baccalaureate

Diploma Program

Tecnológico de Monterrey

Experience+

Education

Ingenieria en Tecnologías Computacionales

Diploma Program

High School Diploma