Hugo Villalba
Staff Software Engineer at Proofpoint
Argentina
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Top SchoolHugo Villalba is a seasoned staff software engineer based in Argentina, bringing eight years of focused experience building large-scale event-driven and data streaming platforms. He specializes in designing and operating device-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-prem microservices using the Apache Kafka ecosystem (Kafka, Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB), enabling real-time data pipelines and ETL at scale. In his current role at Proofpoint, he drives architectural direction and delivery across distributed systems in security-critical environments. His career spans senior roles at McAfee and Intel, where he tackled enterprise-grade software engineering, fault-tolerant architectures, and scalable streaming solutions. Hugo's background in Informatics from Universidad Blas Pascal underpins a practical, hands-on approach to turning complex requirements into robust, auditable production systems. He combines deep technical depth with cross-company experience in security-focused software, on-premises and cloud-native deployments.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Informática, Licenciatura en Informática at Universidad Blas Pascal
English
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Github Skills (14)
databus9
java-client8
java8
streaming7
sink7
webview6
apache-kafka6
guid6
windows-runtime6
javascript6
windows-86
kafka-cluster5
monitoring4
kafka3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mcafee/management-sdk-for-kafka
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
It is a set of Java APIs to operate and monitoring a Kafka cluster
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
sinkapache-kafkaoperatekafka-clusterkafka
opendxl/opendxl-streaming-client-java
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
opendxl-streaming-client-java
Contributions:63 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years
javastreaming-clientstreamingjava-client
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