Alejandra Holman
Senior Expert at Mercado Libre
Argentina
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Top SchoolAlejandra Holman is a Senior Expert backend engineer with 11 years building robust, scalable Java and Scala systems across Latin America’s leading tech companies. Currently at Mercado Libre she focuses on observability and performance engineering to reduce costs and improve uptime, while also designing trainings to embed performance best-practices across teams. Previously she led architecture and reliability efforts at Despegar and MercadoPago, coaching backend engineers and tackling distributed transaction, availability and performance challenges. Known for a strong commitment and adaptability, she blends hands-on coding with cross-team mentorship and operational ownership. Based in Argentina, she brings deep experience in JVM ecosystems, distributed databases and production monitoring, and a knack for turning complex legacy stacks into maintainable, high-performance platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniera en Sistemas de Información, Ingeniera en Sistemas de Información at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
Github Skills (18)
timeseries-database9
mysql7
monitoring7
percona-xtradb-cluster7
elasticsearch6
data-visualization6
go6
prometheus6
analytics6
java6
galera6
dashboard6
grafana5
postgresql4
influxdb4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
despegar/galera-java-client
Apr 2015 - Nov 2016
Galera client written in Java for MariaDB Galera Cluster and Percona XtraDB Cluster
Contributions:3 PRs, 70 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
galerajavamariadbpercona-xtradb-cluster
khronus/khronus
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
A reactive time series database
Contributions:111 commits, 17 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
timeseries-database
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