Ernesto Murillo
Founding Engineer at Unusual Circumstances
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErnesto Murillo is a founding engineer and seasoned software developer with 11 years of experience building scalable systems in Scala and Go, now based in Seattle. He has driven backend and infrastructure work at high-growth and hyperscale organizations including Discord and Google, and recently transitioned to early-stage startup leadership. His technical foundation is complemented by a Computer Engineering degree and an MBA from the University of Washington, reflecting strong product and business fluency alongside hands-on engineering. Ernesto’s background spans cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, informed by earlier work at Mesosphere and research/data analysis roles. He brings a practical mentorship mindset rooted in tutoring and facilitation experience, often translating complex technical trade-offs into clear team decisions. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who pairs deep systems thinking with an entrepreneurial focus on shipping resilient, maintainable services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of WashingtonAssociate's degree Biology and Chemistry, Associate's degree Biology and Chemistry at Columbia Basin College
Spanish
Github Skills (34)
mesosphere10
universe10
autocomplete10
dcos10
package10
cosmos9
scala9
python9
language-server-protocol9
vim-plugin9
package-repository9
docker9
packaging9
golang9
api9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
larioj/dcos-cli
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:130 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year 5 months
pythondatacentercli
larioj/cosmos
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:326 pushes, 129 branches in 1 year 7 months
package-management
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