Didac Oliveira
DRLM Chief Architect & Core Developer at Brain Updaters, S.L.
Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDidac Oliveira is a disaster recovery and high-availability architect with 12+ years designing and implementing resilient GNU/Linux and Unix systems. As DRLM Chief Architect & Core Developer and founder of Brain Updaters, he combines hands-on development with consultancy, delivering virtualization, storage, and identity/role management solutions for production datacenters. He is an active open-source contributor, notably integrating DRLM into the widely used Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) project to enhance PXE, HTTPS and backup/recovery flows. Didac’s work bridges low-level recovery tooling and pragmatic operational processes, making complex failover and bare-metal restore scenarios repeatable and automatable. Based in Catalonia, he brings operator-first instincts from years of 24x7 support and project leadership across consulting and enterprise roles. Colleagues rely on him for clear disaster-recovery plans that are both technically robust and deployable in real-world constraints.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Superior Degree Formative Cycles (CFGS), IT Software Development, Senior Technical Computer Application Development, Superior Degree Formative Cycles (CFGS), IT Software Development, Senior Technical Computer Application Development at IES Rafael Campalans
Spanish, Catalan, English
Github Skills (8)
configuration-management10
bash10
backup10
ipxe10
recovery10
curl9
system-administration9
networking8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rear/rear
Mar 2014 - May 2018
Relax-and-Recover - Linux bare metal disaster recovery and system migration solution (cfr. mksysb, ignite)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 31 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Didac's contributions primarily center on integrating and enhancing DRLM (Disaster Recovery Linux Manager) within the ReaR (Relax-and-Recover) project, focusing on PXE configurations and backup scripts. They implemented modifications to the PXE configuration files to support DRLM integration and adapted the backup processes with pre and post backup scripts. Further work involved the integration of HTTPS support with curl and resolving problems in the process of recovering from boot SAN.
metalfreebsdbarebare-metaldisaster
brainupdaters/fosdem17_workshop
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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