About
Cristian Deluxe
I'm a Staff-level product/platform engineer for systems where production judgment matters: high-traffic applications, Kubernetes/GCP operations, reliability-sensitive migrations, and AI features with explicit evaluation and failure handling.
I work remotely from Cáceres, Spain, with strong overlap across US time zones. My core stack is TypeScript, React, Node.js, SQL, and GCP/Kubernetes; the work I care about is the kind where you build it, run it, verify it, and keep it healthy in production.
Background
Self-taught, production-tested, and still learning. A recent example: I went from no Solr ownership to running a zero-downtime production search-engine cutover. Long-running work includes systems supporting Alaska Airlines (30K+ employees), Kitco (24M annual users), ZeroHedge, and others. The common thread is ownership across product, backend, frontend, infrastructure, and production risk.
What I do today
Staff-level engineering for product/platform systems: production reliability, migrations, incident response, AI-assisted workflows, and technical leadership. Core expertise across TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js, SQL, GCP/GKE, and Kubernetes/Helm, with extensive experience in auth, payments, search, caching, and high-traffic content systems.
Selected outcomes
- Atmos Advisor — trained 30,000+ Alaska Airlines employees on a new loyalty program before public launch.
- Alaska Airlines Staffbase engineering — custom plugins, OAuth/JWT auth, search, and training for the entire workforce.
- Kitco frontend & reliability — work across services supporting 24M users and 372M annual sessions, including a zero-downtime search-engine upgrade.
- ZeroHedge comment platform migration — 40M+ comments moved across four schema versions with per-PR preview environments built along the way.
Languages
- Spanish — native
- English — professional working proficiency
What I'm looking for
- Staff / Senior Staff engineer roles
- Full-time roles on remote-first teams
- Remote-first teams with US time-zone overlap
- Product/platform systems where production judgment matters