About the Authors

Diego, Co-Author

Diego Pacheco is a seasoned, experienced Brazilian software architect, author, speaker, technology mentor, and DevOps practitioner with more than 20+ years of solid experience. I've been building teams and mentoring people for over a decade, teaching soft skills and technology daily. Selling projects, hiring, building solutions, running coding dojos, long retrospectives, weekly 1:1s, design sessions, code reviews, and my favorite debate club: architects community of practices and development groups for more than a decade. Live, breathe, and practice real agile since 2005, coaching teams to help many companies discover better ways to work using Lean, Agile principles, and methods like XP and DTA. I've led complex architecture teams and engineering teams at scale guided by SOA principles, using a variety of open-source languages like Java, Scala, Rust, Go, Python, Groovy, Javascript and Typescript, cloud providers like AWS Cloud and Google GCP, amazing solutions like Akka, ActiveMQ, Netty, Tomcat and Gatling, NoSQL databases like Cassandra, Redis, Elasticache Redis, Ekasticsearch, Opensearch, RabbitMQ, libraries like Spring, Hibernate, and Spring Boot and also the NetflixOSS Stack: Simian Army, RxJava, Karyon, Dynomite, Eureka, and Ribbon. I’ve implemented complex security solutions at scale using AWS KMS, S3, Containers (ECS and EKs), Terraform, and Jenkins. Over a decade of experience as a consultant, coding, designing, and training people at big customers in Brazil, London, Barcelona, India, and the USA(Silicon Valley and Midwest). I have a passion for functional programming and distributed systems, NoSQL Databases, an obsession for Observability, and always learning new programming languages.

Currently working as a principal Software Architect with AWS public cloud, Kubernetes/EKS, performing complex cloud migrations, library migrations, server and persistence migrations, and security at scale with multi-level envelope encryption solutions using KMS and S3. While still hiring, teaching, mentoring, and growing engineers and architects. During my free time, I love playing with my daughter, playing guitar, gaming, coding pocs, and blogging. Active blogger blog at diego-pacheco.blogspot.com.

Sam, Co-Author

Sam has always been passionate about applying engineering to complex business domains. Sam started his career in open-source cryptography before joining an early-stage bioinformatics & data analytics startup with a successful exit to Thomson Reuters. Sam then worked as an engineering leader, leading teams on multimillion-dollar growth initiatives in pharmaceutical research and academic literature analysis. In 2018, Sam switched gears to FinTech by joining a FinTech company in the Bay Area as its Chief Architect, where he now serves as Head of Consumer Engineering, driving its digital banking initiatives.