Carlos Guerrero

Infrastructure Engineer

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Carlos Guerrero

About

Fell in love with programming at first sight—since then, it has been an endless journey of building, breaking, and learning.

Recent Experience

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    Summary:

    • Created the complete language-learning platform for my wife, connecting the learner experience, customer communications, content management, and media delivery through independently deployed microservices.

    Responsibilities:

    • Built the learner-facing PWA with React Native, Expo, React Native Web, and TypeScript, including lessons, media playback, ebooks, progress tracking, and certificates.
    • Created a custom Drive system and content manager with Google Drive imports, file and folder uploads, document editing, and version history.
    • Built video-processing pipelines using Cloudflare Containers and FFmpeg, integrated with content storage and delivery.
    • Developed authentication, accounts, subscription and billing integrations, and supporting APIs.
    • Built a queued mailer and reusable email-template service for transactional and course communications.
    • Created the original Inbox for unified social messaging, email, and in-app chat, with AI-assisted customer workflows.
    • React Native
    • Expo
    • TypeScript
    • Cloudflare Workers
    • Cloudflare Containers
    • FFmpeg
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    Summary:

    • Created a platform for deploying full-stack applications from GitHub, bringing hosting, backends, databases, queues, and workflows together so teams can launch products without managing the underlying infrastructure.

    Responsibilities:

    • Designed and built the platform end to end, bringing application hosting, backends, databases, queues, and workflows into a shared deployment system.
    • Developed GitHub-native deployment workflows, integrated authentication and usage controls, and React/TypeScript dashboard interfaces.

    Achievements:

    • Enabled teams to launch full-stack applications without managing the underlying infrastructure.
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • GitHub Actions
    • Cloudflare Workers
    • Distributed systems
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    Remote - Remote

    Summary:

    • Architected and implemented a comprehensive serverless infrastructure for deploying and managing AI agents and LLMs on AWS Lambda, creating an efficient, scalable solution for AI workloads with OpenAI-compatible interfaces.

    Responsibilities:

    • Engineered a robust serverless infrastructure optimized for AI agent and LLM execution within AWS Lambda constraints
    • Created an automated deployment workflow enabling rapid prototyping and iteration of AI agents without infrastructure management overhead
    • Implemented a message queue system for asynchronous and fault-tolerant inter-agent communication using OpenAI-compatible interfaces

    Achievements:

    • Successfully deployed a Slack-integrated Agent that connected to Jupyter and was able to help Scientists improve their notebooks and even execute Python code from Slack
    • Created a standardized OpenAI-compatible communication protocol enabling plug-and-play integration of new agent components
    • Implemented traceability and monitoring for all components, enabling real-time performance analysis and debugging using AWS X-Ray and CloudWatch
    • Python
    • GoLang
    • AWS Lambda
    • Serverless Architecture
    • LLM Optimization
    • Message Queues
    • OpenAI
    • CI/CD
    • Infrastructure as Code
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    Home Base - On-site

    Summary:

    • Leading an agile, fast-growing team of junior developers through daily challenges and milestones. Responsible for nurturing talent, crisis management, and maintaining high standards of emotional intelligence while delivering continuous support and guidance.

    Responsibilities:

    • 24/7 on-call support with rapid response requirements for critical incidents
    • Strategic planning for educational milestones and developmental objectives
    • Budget management for growing resource requirements across multiple domains
    • Conflict resolution and negotiation with stakeholders displaying varying levels of emotional maturity

    Achievements:

    • Maintained sanity despite sleep deprivation and unpredictable work conditions
    • Established efficient household operation protocols despite frequent requirement changes
    • Developed ability to translate unintelligible requirements into actionable tasks
    • Created scalable systems adaptable to rapidly changing user needs and growth patterns
    • Infinite Patience
    • Story Narration
    • Crisis Management
    • Multi-tasking
    • Sleep Deprivation Resistance
    • Negotiation
    • First Aid
    • Resource Optimization
    • Lego Construction
    • Bedtime Diplomacy
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    Remote - Remote

    Summary:

    • Initially hired as a Backend Engineer, rapidly transitioned to DevOps leadership role to transform the company's infrastructure. Led comprehensive migrations from third-party solutions to self-managed AWS infrastructure, dramatically improving developer experience and deployment reliability.

    Responsibilities:

    • Redesigned the entire CI/CD pipeline to support automated per-branch environment deployment with minimal configuration
    • Architected and implemented a self-managed AWS infrastructure leveraging CloudFront, Fargate, RDS, and other managed services
    • Created and maintained Infrastructure as Code templates using Terraform and AWS CDK

    Achievements:

    • Reduced time from code commit to production-ready deployments from days to hours
    • Eliminated most of deployment-related merge conflicts through isolated environment architecture
    • Implemented sophisticated A/B testing infrastructure at CDN level, allowing for data-driven UX decisions
    • Obtained AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification
    • AWS (CloudFront, Fargate, RDS)
    • GitHub Actions
    • CI/CD
    • Infrastructure as Code
    • Docker
    • A/B Testing

Personal Projects

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Node
  • MySQL
  • Git
  • GitHub GitHub
  • React
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Swift
  • Python
  • GoLang

Education

Certificates