Updated: 2025-11-16
Vicfred
Software Engineer — Backend & Data Systems
Focus on performance and reliability
Summary
Software engineer with 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable backend/data systems. I care about performance, reliability, and clear interfaces. Community builder, mentor, and occasional mathemagician / computering person.
Technical Skills
- Languages: C/C++, Python, Rust, Java, Bash
- Cloud & data (AWS): EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, Route 53
- Datastores & messaging: PostgreSQL, Redis
- Infra & tooling: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git, Nginx
- Observability: metrics, tracing, logging; SLOs and on-call practices
- Domain: large-scale backend services, distributed systems, graph databases
Work Experience
Google — Software Engineer
- Core Data / Topic Server team powering the Google Knowledge Graph.
- Designed and operated high-throughput graph data services backing Search and Maps.
- Improved reliability and latency through data modeling, caching, and serving-path optimizations.
- Worked with infra teams on deploys, alerting, and SLOs for user-facing surfaces.
delt.ai — Senior Software Engineer
Bitso — Senior Software Engineer
CERN (CMS Project) — Research Assistant
Education
National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico) — School of Mathematics and Physics
Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Physics
Community & Leadership
- Founder, C++ Mexico community (twitter.com/cpp_mx); meetups, talks, mentoring.
- Streamer at twitch.tv/vicfred (since Feb 2020): algorithms, problem solving, and math.
- Organizer, Latin American Free Software Install Fest (4 consecutive years).
Awards
- Rank #1 in Mexico on projecteuler.net
- Top 10% contributor on math.stackexchange.com