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Hugo Belin Melgoza

Staff Software Engineer at Dremio

Washington, United States

About

Love to learn, develop and create software that other people enjoy. I build product experiences and infrastructure that help teams ship reliable, delightful software — from lakehouse platforms and web authoring tools to cloud automation and embedded systems.

Side projects and writing live on this site and atBrewingCats. Full professional profile onLinkedIn.

Skills & tools

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Java
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Selenium
  • BrowserStack
  • Azure
  • PowerShell
  • CI/CD
  • Test infrastructure
  • Web performance
  • Data lakehouse
  • Angular
  • C / Assembly
  • Embedded systems

Career map

Experience timeline

Gantt-style view of roles over time (2007–2027). Click a bar or label to jump to details.

  1. 2022 – NowDremioStaff Software Engineer
  2. 2020 – 2022SalesforceSoftware Engineer, Lead Member of the Technical Staff
  3. 2018 – 2020TableauSenior Software Engineer
  4. 2016 – 2018TableauSoftware Engineer
  5. 2014 – 2016MicrosoftSoftware Engineer
  6. 2010 – 2014MicrosoftService / DevOps Engineer
  7. 2009 – 2010MEI / Crane Payment InnovationsEmbedded Software and Hardware Engineer
  8. 2008 – 2009CIDEC (Carso Group)Embedded Software Engineer
  9. 2007 – 2008LuxtronicElectrical and Embedded Software Engineer

Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Dremio · Remote / Greater Seattle Area

2022 – Present

Contribute to the Dremio lakehouse platform — helping knowledge workers and data teams work with open, high-performance analytics infrastructure. Drive engineering quality through branch health, reliability, and performance improvements.

  • Build and improve core product capabilities on a modern data lakehouse stack
  • Drive branch health, CI signal quality, and performance-oriented engineering practices
  • Collaborate across teams as Dremio scales (including the broader SAP ecosystem chapter)
  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • Distributed systems
  • Data lakehouse
  • CI/CD

Software Engineer, Lead Member of the Technical Staff

Salesforce · Greater Seattle Area

2020 – 2022

Role continued after Tableau’s acquisition by Salesforce. Designed and shipped web-first Tableau authoring experiences with a focus on performance, reliability, and developer productivity.

  • Feature development for Tableau web authoring and web-first product experiences
  • Improved perceived and real product performance, including auto-save capabilities
  • Primarily coded in TypeScript/React, C# (Saltarelle + React), and Java (Selenium)
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • C#
  • Java
  • Selenium
  • Performance

Senior Software Engineer

Tableau · Greater Seattle Area

2018 – 2020

Part of the Move to the Web initiative. Designed testing strategy and hybrid automation spanning Tableau on the Web and Tableau Desktop.

  • Designed testing infrastructure aligned with a layered “Pyramid of Test” approach
  • Created a new integration test layer; trained peers and shared findings internally
  • Built hybrid automation for workflows across Web and Desktop products
  • Java
  • Selenium
  • Test architecture
  • Training

Software Engineer

Tableau · Greater Seattle Area

2016 – 2018

Joined Move to the Web to enable Tableau web authoring. Built E2E testing infrastructure and shipped web authoring features users rely on to create and view visualizations in the browser.

  • Designed and developed E2E test plans and tests for upcoming Web features (Java, Selenium, BrowserStack)
  • Led internal test virtual teams that analyzed org-wide quality issues and proposed solutions
  • Shipped Tableau Web Authoring features with C#, Saltarelle, React, and Jasmine
  • Ran free demo sessions to foster ideas and peer learning
  • React
  • C#
  • Java
  • Selenium
  • BrowserStack
  • Jasmine

Software Engineer

Microsoft · Greater Seattle Area

2014 – 2016

Built internal web products for deploying, managing, onboarding, and monitoring Office Web Services on Azure.

  • Feature work on Angular/TypeScript sites for deployment, control, monitoring, and live configuration propagation
  • Storage-layer features for a configuration engine using Azure Table Storage
  • Internal CLI tools in C# and PowerShell for deployment automation and secrets management
  • TypeScript
  • Angular
  • C#
  • PowerShell
  • Azure

Service / DevOps Engineer

Microsoft · Greater Seattle Area

2010 – 2014

Owned operational excellence for on-premises Office services and built automation frameworks adopted by peer engineers.

  • Coordinated processes for Office Subscription, Click-To-Run, and Office Web Applications
  • Designed PowerShell modules for patching, maintenance, and common operational tasks
  • Trained service engineers on automation and contributed a shared module framework
  • Focused on high availability and quality for assigned services
  • PowerShell
  • DevOps
  • Service operations
  • Automation

Embedded Software and Hardware Engineer

MEI / Crane Payment Innovations

2009 – 2010

Designed embedded software and hardware for assembly-line test fixtures validating bill acceptors and coin detectors.

  • Firmware in C and Assembly for Cypress PSoC devices
  • Hardware that simulated I/O for partially assembled and final product testing
  • Java UIs to control fixtures and communicate with devices under test
  • C
  • Assembly
  • PSoC
  • Java
  • Hardware test

Embedded Software Engineer

CIDEC (Carso Group)

2008 – 2009

Developed embedded software for automotive infotainment RTOS used across multiple brands and models.

  • Features for Delphi’s 300C RTOS (non-preemptive scheduling and priority handling)
  • Customized and tested an RTOS variant for Cadillac Escalade infotainment
  • Black-box, white-box, and stress testing for real-time software
  • C
  • RTOS
  • Automotive
  • Testing

Electrical and Embedded Software Engineer

Luxtronic

2007 – 2008

Designed hardware and software for electronic ballasts (switched-mode power supplies) used in industrial lighting.

  • Power electronics design for industrial lighting applications
  • Embedded control software for switched-mode power supply units
  • Power electronics
  • Embedded software

Education

Graduate Certificate — Software Design and Development

University of Washington, Bothell · Bothell, WA

2012 – 2013

Graduate certificate building on introductory programming with core CS foundations for professional software development.

  • Object-oriented design and development, data structures and algorithms
  • Design and testing of software systems, systems programming
  • Software engineering lifecycle, modeling, and development practices

Bachelor's Degree — Electronics Engineering

Morelia Institute of Technology · Morelia, Mexico

2002 – 2008

Bachelor’s degree with specialty in Power Electronics, including low-level programming and SMPS design.

  • Specialty in power electronics and switched-mode power supply design
  • Low-level programming in C and Assembly

Courses

  • Data Structures (C#)

    Cascadia College · BIT143

  • Object Oriented Programming

    Cascadia College · BIT142

  • Harvard ManageMentor

    Harvard Business Publishing

Languages

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Professional working proficiency