Alberto Villacorta

Oversaw technical and product decisions, guiding a cross-functional team of contractors to deliver innovative solutions that aligned with company goals and customer needs.

Drove the end-to-end development lifecycle from ideation to deployment, ensuring high-quality standards and timely delivery of features and enhancements.

Collaborated strategically with stakeholders to define product roadmap and technical strategy, balancing short-term requirements with long-term growth objectives while maintaining budget and resource constraints.

Led Cloud and Architecture strategy for Human Clinical Trials and AI offerings on the platform, ensuring scalable and secure infrastructure.

Engineered and implemented a multi-cloud CI/CD platform, enabling SOC-2 compliant deployments in regulated environments.

Developed a common Terraform modules repository, standardizing infrastructure provisioning across AWS/GCP and managing over 50 Kubernetes clusters for various business verticals.

Established CI/CD tooling for Terraform, enabling GitOps-principled infrastructure deployments.

Created an observability stack Terraform Module leveraging Prometheus/Grafana/Fluentbit/Opentelemetry, used in bootstrapping 50+ GKE managed clusters.

Set up, managed, and hardened multiple GKE/EKS clusters using Terraform and policy-as-code tooling.

Mentored junior engineers and performed comprehensive code reviews, fostering team growth and code quality.

Designed and implemented infrastructure to migrate a Node.js monolith from EC2 to AWS ECS as microservices, enhancing scalability and resilience.

Leveraged Docker and AWS Cloud9 to create collaborative and shareable development/testing environments, reducing environment setup time by 30 minutes.

Developed and deployed CI/CD pipelines and automation scripts using Bash, Node.js, Golang, Lambda, and AWS Codebuild.

Contributed significantly to establishing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, enabling the company to scale its SaaS offering globally.

Executed zero-downtime code and infrastructure deployments, ensuring continuous service availability.

Led and Executed the global roll out of platform to various continents in support of COVID research during the pandemic.

Engineered a microservice architecture communicating over Thrift and HTTP, utilizing Golang, Python, Django, and AWS Lambda, supporting over 10 million daily users and clicks/impressions.

Developed a Python and Django platform for an internal tool to test link generation on brand sites, dramatically decreasing failed links generated by more than 80%.

Architected a PHP backend for the LiketoKnow.It blog widget, ungating the shopping experience and increasing monthly sales by over $3 million.

Constructed a Golang backend for the rewardStyle Traffic widget, driving clicks and impressions among influencers and increasing network traffic by 150%.

Mentored junior and senior engineers new to Golang, teaching language best practices and idiomatic Go.

Served as a core contributor to the API gateway, exposing critical APIs to external clients for key customers, developed in Golang.

Sorted and organized significant quantities of food donations, contributing to efficient distribution to local communities.

Mentored at-risk youth, providing guidance and support to foster positive development and decision-making skills.