Alberto Grespan
Software Engineer at Omni Arcs
Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela
Summary
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Top SchoolAlberto Grespan is a seasoned Software Engineer and Site Reliability specialist with 14 years of experience designing and operating scalable systems across AWS and GCP. He excels in Kubernetes lifecycle management, cost-aware autoscaling, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform/Terragrunt, and has a strong track record modernizing legacy apps into containerized and serverless architectures. Proficient in Ruby and Go (with significant JavaScript, Python, and Rust experience), he focuses on automation, observability, and reducing operational toil through robust CI/CD and architectural improvements. A practical open-source contributor, he improved Jekyll’s URL handling and test coverage to better support internationalized UTF-8 URLs, reflecting attention to edge cases and cross-version compatibility. Based in Caracas, he blends hands-on coding with systems thinking to deliver resilient, maintainable production platforms.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Informático, Ingeniero Informático at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Github Skills (14)
ruby10
url-parser10
url-scheme10
url-encoding10
url-validation10
url-parsing10
jekyll10
encoding10
testing10
static-site-generator9
blog-engine7
markdown-it5
liquid5
markdown5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jekyll/jekyll
Oct 2013 - May 2014
:globe_with_meridians: Jekyll is a blog-aware static site generator in Ruby
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:16 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alberto focused on improving URL handling and encoding within the Jekyll static site generator. They addressed issues related to non-ASCII characters in URLs, introducing UTF-8 encoding to prevent errors. The user also wrote tests to validate the correct escaping and unescaping of URLs, ensuring the software functions properly with international characters. Further commits included fixing tests for compatibility with older Ruby versions and refining the test code to address encoding issues.
globestatic-siteliquidblog-engineruby
full360/voltdbscala
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
Scala wrapper for the VoltDB java client
Contributions:31 commits, 10 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years
voltdbconnectorscala-wrapperdatastreamscala
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