# Sebastian Portalatin Cortes

> Backend Software Engineer

Location: Belmont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sebastianportalatincortes

I am a recent graduate from MIT who is driven most by curiosity. I love exploring every angle of a problem to arrive at the solution that balances our particular goals and objectives for a feature. I love building solutions that are effective and simple-to-understand.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Mateo, California, United States
Led migration of an old search endpoint that performed too much search-time aggregation from popular databases. 
Used Kafka to consume object updates asynchronously and maintain an up-to-date non-relational Elasticsearch database on AWS for the new endpoint.

### Software Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | California, United States
Migrated an endpoint from Oracle OMCC to the Oracle OCI.
Built a parser and unit tests to extract the XML from the endpoint, into the same data format.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Software Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sebastian-portalatin-cortes-954156180

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Last updated: 2026-03-29