Software Engineer & Architect

Daniel
Valdivia

Cloud Native · AI/ML · Distributed Systems

Building the infrastructure layer that makes everything else possible. At MinIO, I designed Kubernetes-native storage at scale. From Guadalajara to the San Francisco Bay Area, 3 US patents and 15+ conference talks later.

LOCATION San Francisco Bay Area
ORIGIN Guadalajara, MX
CURRENT MinIO ACTIVE
PREV. Espressive · ServiceNow · Oracle
PATENTS 3 US GRANTED
EDUCATION Comp. Tech. Eng. — ITESM
INTERESTS Leica · Tech History · OSS
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About

Hey, I'm Daniel. I love software and everything involved to make it work — from Neural Networks, AI/ML pipelines, and Distributed Systems, down to Mobile and Web UI. Cloud infrastructure is my native habitat, but I'm just as comfortable digging into the product UX.

At MinIO, I built the Kubernetes Operator, management Console, and enterprise storage architecture — the plumbing that lets cloud-native teams run object storage at any scale, anywhere.

NOTE: Previously led ML engineering at Espressive,
conducted R&D at ServiceNow and Oracle.
Holds B.Eng. in Computer Technologies from ITESM.

Outside engineering, I explore tech history through books and museums, capture moments on film with my Leica, and will always say yes to a good technology conversation.

3
US Patents
Granted
15+
Conference
Talks
10+
Years
Engineering
4
Major
Companies
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Expertise

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Cloud Native & Kubernetes
Kubernetes Operators Helm OpenShift Multi-cloud
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Distributed Storage
MinIO Object Storage S3 DirectCSI NVMe
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AI / ML Infrastructure
Neural Nets ML Pipelines Data Lakes WebLLM
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Software Architecture
System Design Microservices API Design Go React
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Cloud Infrastructure
AWS GCP Azure VMware Hybrid Cloud
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Research & Innovation
3 US Patents Oracle R&D ServiceNow R&D
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Talks & Presentations

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Contact

Open to conversations about cloud-native architecture, AI/ML infrastructure, distributed systems, and the future of open source storage. If you're building something ambitious, let's talk.