Fernando Ipar
Database Reliability Engineer
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolFernando Ipar is a Database Reliability Engineer with over two decades in IT and 14 years focused on database operations, performance and consulting across MySQL, MongoDB and Cassandra. He combines deep backend engineering, systems administration and DevOps automation experience—having led global support teams, built consulting practices, and contributed production tooling like MySQL-focused deployment and orchestration scripts. Comfortable from emergency troubleshooting to long-term architecture, he prefers remote, outcome-driven roles and mentors teams to get more value from data platforms. A longtime open-source maintainer and contributor, he has shipped high-availability projects and improved deployment automation for tools such as the Swanhart MySQL toolkit. Based in Montevideo, Uruguay, he brings a scientific approach tempered by practical intuition and a propensity for creative side projects (including lo-fi experimental music).
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Fell in love, got a job to get married, dropped out., Software Engineering, Fell in love, got a job to get married, dropped out., Software Engineering at Universidad Católica del Uruguay 'Dámaso Antonio Larranaga'
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (13)
automation10
bash10
provisioning10
automations10
devops10
scripting10
mysql10
big-data6
microservices6
cql6
cassandra6
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
greenlion/swanhart-tools
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Swanhart Toolkit - MySQL tools for MPP query, Materialized Views, Async queries, and JSON UDF
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Fernando primarily contributed to the repository's infrastructure and deployment process. They focused on scripting and configuring the environment using bash, including the installation of prerequisites, setting up MySQL, Gearman, and a proxy. Their work involved modifying the provision script, integrating the SSB generator and ensuring the correct startup of services via the provisioner. The changes improved automation and streamlined the overall setup of the Swanhart Toolkit.
materialized-viewsmppquerymysqlsql
fipar/test-vagrant-envs
Jun 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 27 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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