Something I started
Tacos & Tech
A monthly meetup for Latino engineers in Austin. 900 members and counting.
Hola · Hi
I'm Diego
Alvarez.
call me DeeI make builds fast so my team can go home on time. Then I go home and make brisket slow.
🇲🇽Grew up in Monterrey🇺🇸Home in Austin
Speed check
Fast numbers
200/day
deploys across the company
4 min
average build time
900+
meetup members
The build log
Ten years of making things faster.
From my first bug to leading the platform team.
2022
Engineering Manager, Platform
Bramble · Austin · 2022–Present
My team keeps 60 engineers shipping 200 times a day without anyone getting paged.
2018
Senior Engineer
Kiteline · Austin · 2018–2022
Rebuilt the build system and took deploys from 40 minutes to 4.
2014
Software Engineer
Grupo Norte · Monterrey · 2014–2018
Wrote my first production bug and my first postmortem in the same week.
Education
B.Sc., Computer EngineeringTec de Monterrey · 2014
The crew
The crew at home
Ana, Mateo and Taco run the house. I run the grill.
A
AnaSpouse
M
MateoSon · 4
🐕
TacoDog
Side quests
Things I started
Low and slow
Low and slow
Barbecue
Cycling
Gaming
Dogs
Three things you might not guess
#1
My brisket has a waiting list.
#2
I bike to work, even in August. Especially in August.
#3
Taco the dog has more Instagram followers than me.
My journey
Monterrey to Austin, one smoker at a time
🇲🇽
MonterreyWhere I grew up
🇺🇸
AustinHome today
Ping me
Come for the code review, stay for the brisket.
Gracias · Thanksdiego@example.com
Diego Alvarez · Austin