Sebastian R. Estenssoro

Senior Software Engineer

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Colorado Native and Data Professional

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I excel at learning and adapting computer science to new problems and have found passions in Software Engineering and its many applications.

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Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Motif

Senior Software Engineer | Aspen, CO | May 2025 - Present

Designed and implemented secure, production-grade AWS infrastructure for containerized workloads, including CodeBuild runners, ECR repository policies, VPC integrations, and IAM least-privilege roles used across multi-account environments. Built and refactored Terraform modules to standardize infrastructure provisioning. Improved CI/CD efficiency by migrating services from S3-based Lambda packaging to ECR container images and optimizing Docker multi-stage builds. Enhanced Kubernetes operational reliability by creating reusable Helm charts and modularized deployment methods.

Tanium

Senior Software Engineer | Aspen, CO | February 2023 - May 2025

Architected clean-delete process for multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters using Golang. Successfully transitioned third-party Docker images to secure internal images, ensuring uniformity across all Kubernetes services. Contributed to large Terraform codebase for managing Cloud Kubernetes Clusters. Authored custom Prometheus endpoint for Cluster Autoscaling metrics in Golang. Created Golang Operators and CRDs for managing cloud infrastructure.

Twitter

Senior Software Engineer | Aspen, CO | January 2020 - November 2022

Implemented custom Terraform Providers to facilitate Hybrid Cloud Computing infrastructure at Twitter. Designed and build Terraform module for private AWS EKS deployment inside of Twitter VPC. Contributed to the successful evaluation of Golang as the primary non-JVM language at Twitter. Build automation tools in Golang for GitOps and compute infrastructure. Reduced time to provision the Terraform Enterprise server infrastructure from 4 hours to 5 minutes. Led cost-savings initiatives for compute and storage in GCP. Contributed to Golang Auth add-on tool for AWS EKS.

Finnalytics

Owner | Snowmass Village, CO | November 2019 - Present

IT consulting providing freelance expertise on building and deploying web services

Seaspan Capital

Engineering Lead | Denver, CO | April 2018 - January 2020

Created and led a software development team for a multi-billion dollar company. Championed and implemented Cloud Web Services, Agile Development Team, Data Warehouse, BI Reporting Platforms, Containerization, CI/CD Pipelines, and Serverless Web Applications. Created Golang Rest APIs, semi-structured text processors, email notifications, and GraphQL services. Systemized corporate data through Django Web Admin toll and Kubernetes Airflow.

EOG Resources

Software Engineer (contract) | Denver, CO | August 2017 - April 2018

Programmed asynchronous data pipelines to move data from Data Mart to Microsoft SQL, ElasticSearch, OpenTSDB, Postgres, and Oracle. Refactored Airflow to allow DAGs to launch from any folder without Webserver and Scheduler overhead. Authored Django web application to collect offline field data and sync with ElasticSearch. Refactored Python processes in Golang to improve speed and performance

Dish Technologies

Data Scientist / Software Engineer | Superior, CO | November 2016 - July 2017

Data Scientist/Software Engineer for a large-scale data migration project. Programmed python processes to automate data pipelines in Hadoop and MySQL for ETL, reporting, and analytics. Used Airflow and Bash scripting to steamline and automate. Experience with Spark, ElasticSearch, Impala, and provisioning a Hadoop cluster. Created asynchronous Python processes that retrieve and process data from FTP sites into HDFS. Authored TensorFlow Neural Network algorithm to classify image data. Used Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to automate data migration. Developed Django UIs to enable non-programmers to interact with data and streamline processes. Used statistical techniques to provide insight into data landscape and drive business decisions.

PowerAdvocate

Consultant | San Francisco, CA | October 2015 - July 2016

Special data consultant on the Aliso Canyon Gas Leak Disaster. Self-taught Python to streamline the ETL efforts of relocation data. Spearheaded data and analytics and Interacted directly with VPs to provide updates on the relocation efforts and wrote algorithms to verify more that $20M in claims reimbursements.

Halliburton

Field Engineer | Ft. Lupton, CO | March 2013 - October 2016

Created and implemented VBA macro-enhanced verification sheets that were adopted in all Halliburton districts in the Rockies while managing and mentoring a team of 5 engineers. This position required 24-hour availability to support cementing operations in the lab and field. Invented a variable density/viscosity fluid system and programmed data-smoothing algorithms that lead to increased productivity.

TYKU Sake & Spirits

Data Analyst | New York, NY | May 2012 - March 2013

Worked directly under the CEO to interpret historical sales data and predict budget and shipment needs. Created and maintained up-to-date market trackers and business reports and self-taught VBA to automate this process. Efforts lead to the replacement of Salesforce with in-house reporting tools.

Education

Data Science | Computer Science | Chemical Engineering

Galvanize Data Science

Data Science Fellow- Graduated: 2016

Python-based data science immersive program with project-based curriculum focusing on data processing, machine learning, data visualization, and real world applications.

  • Scikit-Learn, Numpy, Pandas, SciPy, Flask, Pandas, Matplotlib, Keras, Graphlab
  • NLP, Regression, Regularization, Bayes, Random Forrest, SVM
  • Cluster Computing: AWS, Hadoop, Spark
  • Recommender Systems: PCA, SVD, NMF

Projects

Projects I contribute to

Stem Stickers

Automatically generate course profile stickers for endurance races from .gpx and .fit files. Stack: Golang, GraphQL, Postgres, Python, Vue, Terraform, and AWS.

STF

Scrape user emails for receipt data and generate JSON manifests of user inventory using the ChatGPT API. Users can then sell and/or manage their stuff inventory. Stack: Golang, GraphQL, Postgres, NextJS, Terraform, and AWS.

Buttermilk Appreciation Day

Annual scavenger hunt at Buttermilk Ski Resort. Users authenticate and are automatically assigned teams. Points are scored by scanning QR codes across the ski resort. Stack: Golang, GraphQL, Postgres, Vue, Terraform, and AWS.

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