Lisandro Joaquín Mentasti

London, UK  ·  lisandro.mentasti@gmail.com

Summary

Software engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with 6+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems. Currently at Okta, working on platform reliability and developer tooling. Master's in Data Analytics Engineering from Northeastern University. Aspiring ML Engineer — combining infrastructure expertise with machine learning systems.

Experience

Site Reliability Engineer

Okta

June 2019 – Present · London, UK
  • · Build and maintain high availability for Okta Workflows — a no-code automation platform serving enterprise customers.
  • · Develop internal tooling and automation to reduce operational toil and improve deployment reliability.
  • · Own on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortem processes for critical production services.
  • · Drive infrastructure migrations to Kubernetes on AWS, improving deployment velocity and resource efficiency.
  • · Collaborate with engineering teams to define SLOs and improve observability across services.

Education

Master of Science, Data Analytics Engineering

Northeastern University

Fulbright Scholar · Dean's Office Fellow

2017 – 2019 · Boston, MA

Systems Engineering (Ingeniería en Sistemas)

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN)

2004 – 2009 · Argentina

Skills

Infrastructure & Platform

Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift, Helm, Terraform, AWS, Azure AKS, CI/CD

Languages & Frameworks

Python, Bash, FastAPI, SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Observability & Reliability

Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, SLOs/SLIs, incident management

AI / ML (learning)

ML pipelines, model deployment, MCP, CrewAI, data engineering

Awards & Recognition

· Argentine Presidential Fellowship (Fulbright) — September 2017. Competitive fellowship awarded by the Argentine Ministry of Education for graduate study in the United States.
· Northeastern University Dean's Office Fellowship — September 2017. Merit-based award from the Northeastern College of Engineering.