Miguel Tormo

Software & Systems Engineer

Ireland

About

Software and systems engineer with experience in designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale.

Experience

  • Amazon ()
    • Software Development Engineer
      Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

      As part of the Search ML Data Platform team, designing, building, and operating large data processing and ML feature engineering systems.

    • Search Operations Engineer (Site Reliability Engineer)
      Jun 2017 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

      At Amazon Search, we design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day. Responsibilities: ‣ Reliability of the Search service used on all Amazon sites and partner sites. ‣ Project ownership of engineering initiatives from inception. ‣ Diagnose and mitigate critical failures in high pressure situations. ‣ Collaborate with other engineering teams to deliver on business growth initiatives and efficiency improvements. ‣ Lead operational excellence across several service teams that form Amazon Search. ‣ Perform troubleshooting deep-dives on system and application issues, driving root cause resolution. ‣ Develop tools to automate manual processes or improve existing frameworks.

  • Amazon Web Services (1 yr 9 mos)
    • Big Data Cloud Support Engineer
      Jan 2016 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Cloud Support Engineer focused on Big Data services: EMR, DynamoDB, Kinesis, AWS Elasticsearch, Data Pipeline and Athena. Main functions: ‣ Troubleshoot problems and performance issues on customers’ EMR clusters, with Hadoop, HDFS or any supported application, such as Hive, Spark, Tez, Presto and others. ‣ Deliver customized solutions to our customers, sometimes writing workarounds or patches to fix software issues. ‣ Assist with architectural advice and provide best practices not only using AWS Big Data platform, but also within Hadoop and its ecosystem. ‣ Drive customer communication and work with development teams to improve AWS services. ‣ Participate in internal projects to develop tools for improving our daily work and customers’ support experience. ‣ As an internally certified EMR subject matter expert, I acted as point of contact for questions and escalations regarding EMR and Hadoop related issues, as well as providing training and mentoring to other engineers in the team.

    • Cloud Support Engineer
      Oct 2015 - Jan 2016 · 4 mos

  • EDICOM ()
    • Systems Engineer
      Mar 2005 - Aug 2015 · 10 yrs 6 mos

      Design, deploy and mantain hardware and software systems which provide critical B2B services to our customers.

    • 24x7 Systems Operator
      Nov 2004 - Feb 2005 · 4 mos

      - Monitor the infrastructure which provides SaaS to our customers. - First line responder to network and service issues. - Support key enterprise customers 24/7 on their needs using EDICOM's software and services (related to EDI and B2B technologies).