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Elias Navarro

Austin, TX

Engineering Manager

Professional Summary

Runs platform teams that treat developer time as the scarce resource. Golden paths, paved CI, and internal platforms only count if a product squad can ship on Friday without filing a ticket on Thursday.

At Driftwood, cut median PR-to-prod time from 3.4 days to 11 hours for 22 squads. Previously built Copperline's self-service environments and Lantern's local toolchain before anyone called it DX.

Skills

14 years:

Python

11 years:

AWS

10 years:

TypeScript

9 years:

System Design,

Kubernetes

8 years:

Technical Leadership,

Change Management

7 years:

Program Management

Work Experience

Driftwood Platform - Austin, TX

Engineering Manager, Developer Experience — February 2022 to present

Replaced seven ad-hoc pipelines with one paved path and cut PR-to-prod from 3.4 days to 11 hours Technical Leadership, Change Management, Kubernetes, Program Management
Shipped the catalog and scorecards that cut orphaned services from 61 to 9 and onboarding to 2 days TypeScript, System Design, Program Management
Launched per-PR preview environments on shared EKS and cut QA cycle time 44% Kubernetes, AWS, Python

Copperline Cloud - Austin, TX

Staff Engineer, Platform — January 2020 to January 2022

Automated AWS account vending and cut new-environment lead time from 12 days to 40 minutes AWS, Python, System Design
Codified ten security guardrails as policy-as-code and blocked 230 public buckets in a year AWS, Kubernetes, Technical Leadership

Senior Software Engineer — March 2017 to January 2020

Shipped a Python CLI that mirrored staging locally and cut platform laptop-only bugs 58% Python, TypeScript, Change Management
Collapsed 30 forked pipelines into shared CI templates and cut weekly pipeline minutes 36% TypeScript, Program Management, AWS

Featured Projects

Paved-road golden-path scorecards for platform teams Technical Leadership, System Design, Program Management

A public version of the Driftwood catalog rules: what a golden path must guarantee, how scorecards stay honest, and why a portal is not a platform. Includes the orphan-service definition that dropped the count from 61 to 9.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering — May 2012

Certifications

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Amazon Web Services — June 2021

Credential ID: DOP-ELIAS-0618

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Cloud Native Computing Foundation — February 2023

Credential ID: CKA-ELIAS-2302