Diogo Recharte
Software Engineering Lead at Percona
Porto, Porto, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolDiogo Recharte is a software engineering lead based in Porto with nine years of experience building distributed systems, cloud backends and embedded networking stacks for connected vehicles and database observability. Currently leading engineering at Percona, he has hands-on experience improving critical open-source tooling—contributing CLI enhancements, Kubernetes client utilities and cluster management features to the widely used Percona PMM project. His career spans embedded-to-cloud roles at Veniam where he shipped delay-tolerant content distribution for vehicular networks and completed a nearly production-grade master’s thesis evaluated on real network data. Diogo combines low-level systems thinking with pragmatic backend and DevOps practices, mentoring teams to deliver reliable, observability-first software at scale.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's in Electrical and Computers Engineering Microelectronics and Embedded Systems, Master's in Electrical and Computers Engineering Microelectronics and Embedded Systems at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (15)
command-line10
command-line-interface10
kubernetes10
docker10
go10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
database-management9
database9
github-repos9
observability9
git-repository9
monitoring9
databases9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
percona/pmm
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:83 reviews, 7 commits, 24 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Diogo primarily focused on enhancing the PMM-admin and PMM command-line interface by adding tab completion functionality. They integrated the `kong-completion` library for this purpose and addressed related issues, such as fixing panics in `pmm-admin`. Furthermore, the user contributed to improving the Kubernetes client within the DBaaS context, adding new functions for retrieving pod logs, events, and resources. Finally, the user was involved in the process of moving and integrating features related to Kubernetes cluster management.
perconadatabase-monitoringobservabilitypmmdatabase
percona/everest-operator
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
Percona Everest Operator
Contributions:365 reviews, 211 PRs, 318 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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