Camilo Aguilar
Founder at hooklift
Medellín and New York., Colombia
Summary
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RockstarCamilo Aguilar is a software engineer with 16 years of experience building distributed systems, release engineering, and SRE across health, finance, retail and online advertising. He blends startup grit—founding Hooklift and shipping developer tools like gowsdl and a Node/WebKit agent—with enterprise impact as a Staff/Principal engineer at Slack and Salesforce and now at Redpanda. An active open-source contributor, his work spans low-level tooling such as v8-profiler (heap/CPU profiling) and xhyve (serial/PTTY virtualization), reflecting comfort with both runtime internals and infrastructure. Pragmatic and goal-driven, he helps self-organized teams turn product objectives into reliable, production-ready systems while bringing deep GNU/Linux and OAuth/OpenID Connect expertise.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (41)
json-parser10
json10
exponential-backoff10
javascript10
c-language10
wsdl10
lib10
testing10
jsonp10
websocket10
c1110
c1710
http-client10
go10
parsing10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
hooklift/gowsdl
Dec 2013 - May 2022
WSDL2Go code generation as well as its SOAP proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 12 reviews, 186 commits in 8 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Camilo primarily contributed to the development of the core functionality of the `gowsdl` tool. Their work focused on implementing the command-line interface (CLI), including argument parsing, version display, and output file handling. They also started the implementation of the core logic to unmarshal WSDL files and generate different code representations like types, operations, and a SOAP proxy. The user's commits show an iterative approach to building out the different code generation phases.
golangcode-generationproxysoapwsdl
c4milo/node-webkit-agent
Mar 2012 - Dec 2019
NodeJS agent for WebKit devtools front-end
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Camilo primarily worked on implementing and enhancing the functionality of a NodeJS agent designed for the WebKit developer tools front-end. Their contributions include the initial setup of a WebSocket server, defining message handling logic, and implementing agents for profiling (heap profiling) and runtime evaluation. The user also added a console, implementing bidirectional console logging. Further work included the development of methods for gathering profile headers, and cleaning up v8-profiler cache, and adding the ability to collect garbage.
agentperformance-analysisclient-sidebrowser-detectionjavascript
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