Manuel Olguín Muñoz

Professional Summary

Work Experience

Systems Engineer, Argo Smart Routing | Cloudflare Inc., US | 11/2022 - Present

• Built upon and expanded the Argo Smart Routing team’s existing Rust and Go codebases.
  • Owned the migration of key control-plane services to new high-availability and disaster-recovery clusters, directly contributing to Cloudflare’s goal of ensuring HA and redundancy for all API endpoints.
  • Improved security for Cloudflare customers by owning the implementation of Post-Quantum Cryptography in one of Cloudflare’s principal dataplane products, an endeavor involving multiple teams across the company’s Engineering and Research orgs.
  • Directly increased Cloudflare revenue by implementing key product features such as expanding existing dataplane products to support more transport protocols and developing important performance-, stability-, and observability-enhancing features.
  • Developed new and expanded existing RESTful APIs, both public- and internal-facing.
  • Improved team processes by taking ownership of initiatives intended to increase team efficiency.
• Recognized by leadership as being highly attentive to on-call duties and not missing a single page or alert in the 2022-2023 year.
• Volunteered to participate in the hiring process at Cloudflare, helping to evaluate candidates’ culture fit.

Doctoral Researcher | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | 09/2017 - 10/2022

• Designed and built the first reprogrammable and reconfigurable Edge Computing testbed in Sweden.
• In collaboration with the Elijah Group at Carnegie Mellon University, published research on Augmented Reality and Edge Computing in renowned publications and venues such as PLOS ONE, ACM HotMobile, and the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing.
  • Selected publication: Olguín Muñoz et al. 2021. Impact of delayed response on wearable cognitive assistance, PLOS ONE.

Lecturer (Remote) | Universidad de Chile, Chile | 08/2021 - 12/2021

• Co-lectured a course on the fundamentals of the TCP/IP stack to 81 computer science undergraduates.
• Designed innovative homework assignments using the Kathará simulator which were highly praised by students.

Research Engineer | NIC Chile Research Labs, Chile | 08/2015 - 08/2017

• Developed a novel environment for the simulation of Intelligent Transportation Systems in C++.

Technical Skills

• Programming languages: Python (~12 yoe) | Rust (~2 yoe) | Go (~2 yoe) | C+ (~1 yoe) | Java
• Software Development: Git (~12 yoe) | GitOps (~2 yoe) | Github | Bitbucket | Gitlab
• Database Technologies: PostgreSQL (~2 yoe) | ClickHouse (~2 yoe) | SQLite | MySQL
• System Administration: Linux (~12 yoe, primarily Debian- and Arch-based systems) | Bash | systemd | Ansible
• Observability: Prometheus (~3 yoe) | Grafana (~2 yoe) | Alertmanager (~2 yoe)
• Virtualization, Containerization: Docker (~7 yoe) | Kubernetes (K8s) (~2 yoe) | Docker Swarm (~2 yoe) | VMs
• Data analysis & visualization: Pandas (~7 yoe) | Matplotlib (~7 yoe) | Numpy & Scipy (~7 yoe) | Jupyter
• AI & ML: Applied statistics | Machine learning | DNNs | scikit-learn | Tensorflow

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden | Graduated 06/2023

• Dissertation title: An Emulation-Based Performance Evaluation Methodology for Edge Computing and Latency Sensitive Applications

Computing Engineer (Professional Degree, equivalent to an M.Sc.Eng.) | Universidad de Chile, Chile | Graduated 08/2017

B.Sc.Eng. in Computing | Universidad de Chile, Chile | Graduated 12/2014

Miscellaneous

• Dual citizen of Chile and Sweden.
• Fluent in Spanish, Swedish, and English. Conversational in Portuguese.