Antonio Vara is a DevOps and SRE Lead based in Madrid with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable cloud-native platforms and driving cross-functional projects at ING España&Portugal. He has led migrations from legacy stacks to automated, repeatable deployment pipelines—previously designing an internal PaaS and managing ~180 production servers serving 500k daily users. Antonio blends hands-on engineering (Go, Docker, DC/OS, AWS/GCP) with team leadership, having risen from systems engineer roles through DevOps team lead to current SRE leadership. An active open-source contributor, he fixed tricky Windows YAML path handling in the widely used urfave/cli Go project, improving cross-platform robustness. He also has entrepreneurial roots, having founded and run web communities and products, and complements his practice with data science and MongoDB training. Known for pragmatic automation and a focus on reliability, he enjoys turning brittle manual ops into fast, auditable delivery workflows.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization, Data Science, Specialization, Data Science at Coursera
SEO y SEM Especialist, Internet, SEO y SEM Especialist, Internet at Instituto SEO y SEM
M101JS: MongoDB for Node.js Developers, MongoDB, M101JS: MongoDB for Node.js Developers, MongoDB at MongoDB University
Scrum Training, Scrum, Scrum Training, Scrum at BQ Training
Técnico Administrativo, Trabajo Administrativo, Técnico Administrativo, Trabajo Administrativo at Centro Cultural Salmantino
Community Manager, Internet, Community Manager, Internet at Instituto Community Manager
Ruby, Programming, Ruby, Programming at Autoenseñanza
A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Antonio primarily focused on enhancing the `urfave/cli` project's functionality related to handling configuration files, particularly YAML, on Windows systems. Their contributions involved identifying and fixing issues where the application failed to load YAML files due to platform-specific path handling. The user also addressed import errors and added comments to clarify the logic for Windows file path checks. These changes improved the robustness of the application across different operating systems.
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Antonio Vara - DevOps And SRE Lead at ING España&Portugal