About

Alberto Torres is a highly skilled Software Engineer with a passion for Cloud Native Infrastructure. He is a Platform Engineer who is excited about tackling tough challenges and being part of DevOps transformations. Alberto has excelled in both client-facing and internal roles and has thrived and enjoyed working in various industries. Alberto has an academic background with a mix of machine learning, DevOps, quantitative, programming & engineering skills as well as 'soft' management and leadership skills. He has minors in Entrepreneurship & Psychology. Currently, Alberto is working as a Staff Platform Engineer, New Product Innovation, at Walmart. In the past, Alberto has worked with LedgerX as a Lead DevOps Engineer. He was responsible for maintaining & improving all cloud infrastructure and was part of the 'on-call' rotation. Alberto effectively troubleshooted incidents in production and implemented build & CI/CD pipeline improvements, including a 75% reduction in containerized software stack build time & reduced docker image sizes. He also worked on code/query performance tuning, including multiple orders of magnitude improvement on real-time market surveillance SQL query run times. Alberto has also worked with Jetblack, which is the first portfolio company within Store Nº8, the incubation arm of Walmart, focused on transforming the future of retail. Jetblack is a members-only concierge shopping service that combines the convenience of e-commerce with the customized attention of a personal assistant. Alberto worked as a Staff Platform Engineer, where he was responsible for maintaining & improving all cloud infrastructure. Alberto's education history includes a Machine Learning Programming Class from Stanford University, Introduction to DevOps: Transforming and Improving Operations from edX, a Bachelors of Science in Operations Research: Engineering Management Systems from Columbia Engineering, and a Culinary Management degree from the Institute of Culinary Education. Alberto's tech stack includes infra, Software Engineer, DevOps, ML, SQL, Bitcoin, CI/CD, and Docker. He has relevant experience of 9.60 years.