Iñaki H. Esquivel Software Engineer | Devops | Data Engineering

Open Source Contributor | Kubernetes Tooling

Supabase

Mar 2026 - Apr 2026 (2 months)

Community-led open-source contribution to the supabase-helm ecosystem. - Authored and implemented a dynamic NetworkPolicy system for the Postgres database, enforcing "Least Privilege" access and protecting sensitive data from unauthorized cluster-internal traffic. - Introduced extraInitContainers support for Database and Storage deployments, enabling users to perform complex pre-deployment tasks like remote seed fetching and automated asset synchronization.

Principal AI & Software Architect | CTO

HAL

Nov 2025 - Current (8 months)

Chief Technology Officer

HAL

Nov 2025 - Current (8 months)

Senior Software Engineer

Deloitte

Dec 2024 - Jan 2026 (1 year 2 months)

Green Dot Bank Corporation - DevOps - Migration from legacy servers to EKS and AKS, improving scalability for +80M users and saving up to 50% in AWS costs. - Supported and created Kubernetes deployments, generic Helm charts, and ArgoCD-specific charts with best practices for applications having over 80 replicas - Developed maintenance pipeline serving approximately 50M users - Support releases for +70M users using a blue-green strategy with Istio-Mesh and provide incident support - Automation cert renewal (ansible, AKV), cronjobs runners, Jira and Cofluence ticket and tracker page automation, scripts to handle legacy and k8s resources

Platform Engineer

Thomson Reuters

May 2024 - Dec 2024 (8 months)

- End-to-end migration of enterprise repositories and CI/CD from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions - Migrated AWS billing database from MongoDB to SQL; updated application logic - Deployed Datadog monitoring across on-prem and K8s environments (ansible, daemonsets) - Enhanced internal AWS CDK framework by integrating automated FinOps cost-governance modules

Software Engineer

GOJIMX

Feb 2024 - May 2024 (4 months)

- Architected k8s vs AWS ECS deployments (deployment per user group and autoscale)

Lead Software Engineer

HAL

Apr 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 9 months)

- Architected and led a team of data scientists and software engineers - Responsible for Docker/K8s/Helm: Troubleshooting, add features, migration from GCP to bare metal, easy-to-install Hal9 project - Migrated from cloud to a bare-metal Kubernetes project - Auto generate and manage SSL certificates for K8s deployments - Built multi-architecture Docker images for microservices - Developed Composer code in Typescript to manage Kubernetes resource deployment, destruction, and polling - Converted SQL database to DuckDB for internal use

Lead AI & Software Engineer

HAL

Apr 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 9 months)

- Architected and led a team of data scientists and software engineers - Responsible for company software infrastructure (cloud, baremetal, microservices etc) - Computer vision system utilizing BlazePose and FaceMesh for real-time biomechanical tracking, implementing a decoupled architecture to run vector analysis locally while reducing LLM API overhead by 99%. - Architected a multimodal data pipeline using RAG to synthesize expert clinical constraints from scraped video and medical APIs, migrating from legacy hardcoded heuristics to dynamic, patient-specific JSON movement profiles.

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Software Engineer

Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 (1 year 1 month)

- Responsible for Docker/K8s: Troubleshooting, setting up clusters in GCP, EKS - Implemented automatic alerts for observability using Grafana and slack alerts - Performed ETL migrations and create mock data for PostgreSQL, Bigquery, duckdb - Managed data storage, saving private and public data to AWS or local disk - Add SAML and OAuth authentication

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Jr Software Engineer

Mar 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 2 months)

- Implemented Developed Composer code in Rust and Typescript to manage Kubernetes resource deployment, destruction, and polling - Performed ETL migrations and create mock data for PostgreSQL, Bigquery, duckdb - Add SAML and OAuth authentication - Built multi-architecture Docker images for microservices - Currencies and forecast predictions using prophet, LSTM, RNN with real time data.

Iñaki H. Esquivel

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