Speaker: Anderson Parra
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Staff Software Engineer @SeatGeek
Anderson Parra is a Staff Software Engineer on SeatGeek’s Cloud Platform team, where he works on the infrastructure that powers high-demand ticket onsales. His work focuses on building resilient systems that can withstand internet-scale traffic and on designing layered defenses across edge, API gateways, and Kubernetes platforms to protect core services while preserving a fair user experience.
Over the past 18+ years, Ander has built and operated large-scale distributed systems handling massive traffic and data volumes for companies in Brazil, Ireland, Germany, the UK, and the United States. He has worked across a wide range of technologies, including Java, Scala, Go, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Lua, with a strong focus on platform engineering and distributed systems.
Anderson holds a master’s degree in distributed systems based on his research, “A Lightweight Reconfiguration Solution for Paxos”.
Session
Shielding the Core: Architecting Resilience with Multi-Layer Defenses
High-demand events can cause sudden traffic spikes that can overwhelm even well-designed systems. In ticketing platforms, millions of users, alongside increasingly sophisticated automated agents, may arrive simultaneously, placing extreme pressure on backend services.
Date
Wednesday Mar 18 / 03:55PM GMT ( 50 minutes )
Location
Whittle (3rd Fl.)
