About

Al Diaz is a Senior Full Stack Engineer with over 7 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as an Infrastructure Architect and DevSecOp at Seasoned, where he manages and leads cross-functional teams in the development of consuetudinary releasable features to implement and deploy in “on-premise”, hybrid, or pure Cloud environments. His focus is on stability, scalability, high-performance, security, and cost optimization, working closely with Product Managers and Stakeholders. Al is a People First advocate and Culture Ambassador empowering minorities and helping individuals reach their goals. He is an ITIL 4 framework for IT Management adopter. His main responsibility at Seasoned is Infrastructure and Application Architectures, CI/CD workflows and pipelines, Cloud provisioning, Security, and Deployments. Al has moved from a hybrid monolithic EC2 implementation to Serverless/SAM (both, FaaS or AWS API Gateway/Lambda/S3/DynamoDB, and containers with AWS ECS > Fargate). He has reduced operational cost of services by 70% improving uptime (above 99.5%) and RPO/RTO. He has instrumented the bases for the migration from a pure JavaScript codebase to TypeScript following the Onion Architecture and Functional Programming design. He has developed private and public-facing event-driven applications and resilient systems (JavaScript). Al has worked with a variety of tech stacks including AWS, Nginx, Node.js, Java, Go, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, GraphQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and React native. In the past, Al has worked with companies like FortressIQ and Business Wire. At FortressIQ, he managed a small team of 5 Full Stack Engineers focused on a React/D3.js application, including code review and mentoring. He increased the size of the IT department by 30% working closely with the Recruiting Team to improve Recruiting Pipelines, processes and company’s Culture and Diversity. At Business Wire, he managed a team of 14 Engineers (including DevSecOps and QA) working on the migration of on-premise monolithic services to low-latency microservices on AWS Cloud, switching from JAVA to JavaScript and GO as dominant languages. Al's education history is not available at the moment. His tech stack includes infra, Senior Software Engineer, Javascript, AWS, Typescript, Redis, Kubernetes, ECS, Spark, CI