Carlos Martín is a Principal Software Engineer based in Spain with 16 years of experience building cloud and developer tooling backends, currently shaping the Go backend for Scylla Cloud. He has led teams and projects at source{d}, translating complex research-led code analysis into production applications, and earlier helped build OpenNebula’s IaaS platform in C++, Ruby and JavaScript. Carlos combines deep systems and distributed-systems expertise with a practical focus on observability and query processing—his open-source contributions include core improvements to an extensible Go MySQL server implementation. Comfortable from low-level daemon work to cloud-native Go services, he frequently bridges engineering, product and management as a tech lead and maintainer. A detail that stands out: he balanced leadership and hands-on coding across diverse stacks while taking a creative sabbatical to travel Asia, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving and team culture.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Research in Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Research in Computer Science Computer Science at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Contributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Carlos contributed to the core functionality of the MySQL server implementation in Go. Their work included adding features like handling VARCHAR length in MySQLTypeName and incorporating progress tracking for partition operations within the SHOW PROCESSLIST output. The contributions involved modifications to SQL parsing, query processing, and the process list display, indicating a focus on improving query execution and monitoring capabilities. Furthermore, the user also addressed asynchronous query context management.
Contributions:6 releases, 31 commits, 12 pushes in 7 months
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Carlos Martín - Principal Software Engineer at ScyllaDB