Alex Almada · Navojoa, Sonora

Backend engineer.
Live streaming at scale.

I build and operate infrastructure that keeps millions of concurrent viewers connected to live sports: in Go and TypeScript, on Kubernetes, against the messy parts of production.

I'm a lead backend engineer at Maestro Interactive, where I work on the infrastructure behind live streaming for tier-one sports and media properties. The job is Go and TypeScript services, distributed systems, MongoDB under real load, and the kind of consolidation work that turns a collection of microservices back into something you can reason about.

I've been writing backend code for roughly twenty years. My instinct is to measure before I migrate, to delete before I add, and to treat infrastructure as something that has to earn its complexity. Most of what I ship lives behind the scenes. A few explorations live on GitHub.

2023 to now

Maestro Interactive

Lead backend engineer. Live streaming infrastructure for major sports and media clients. Go, Kubernetes, GCP, MongoDB. Scaling to millions of concurrent viewers during live events.

Go Kubernetes GCP MongoDB Distributed systems

Languages

Go, TypeScript, Python, with a dash of Bash.

Infra

Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform. Comfortable elsewhere, not religious about it.

Data

MongoDB at scale, PostgreSQL by choice, Redis, NATS.

Temperament

I start from the problem, not the playbook. I'd rather remove a system than add one. When I'm wrong, I want to find out fast.