Sebastián Portalatín
Belmont,CA
Summary
Early-in-career software developer with proven experience building systems and improving them. Pragmatic and self-driven, I thrive in scoping out interesting problems and discussing with peers.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Backend Software Engineer
Verkada
San Mateo, CA
01.2024 - Current
- Designed effective, distributed solutions for end-user features, such as license-plate-in-call, scheduled call reports, and QR Code Tempass, coordinating teams, managing on-time rollouts, and monitoring post-launch.
- Implemented impactful performance improvements: indexing critical queries (70-90%), improving transcription async I/O by multithreading (100x), caching hot API calls (100x), etc.
- Performed time-series analysis of telemetry, extracting signal from noisy or incomplete data to establish SLOs and present visualizations.
Software Engineering Intern
Verkada
San Mateo, CA
06.2022 - 08.2025
- Designed an asynchronous ETL pipeline ingesting document changes with Kafka into Elasticsearch for faster user search.
- Tested for load and correctness, deploying a validator and throughput metrics.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA06-2023
Skills
- Cloud: AWS, Kubernetes
- Technologies: Kafka, Flask, gRPC
- Data stores: PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch
- Languages: Python, Golang, C, Java
- Pure Math: Linear Algebra, Algorithms, Bayesian Probability
- Performance: Cache Alignment, Instruction Vectorization, Memory and CPU Profiling
Affiliations
- Caribbean and Central American Math Olympiad - 2016 - Perfect Score
- IMO - 2017 - Honorable Mention
- Leiserchess Programming Competition Top 3 Finish - 2022
Languages
English
Native/ Bilingual
Spanish
Full Professional
Timeline
Backend Software Engineer
Verkada
01.2024 - Current
Software Engineering Intern
Verkada
06.2022 - 08.2025
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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