Francesc Zacarias
Site Reliability Engineer at PlantingSpace
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolFrancesc Zacarias is a Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining reliable, secure, high-performance systems across companies like Spotify, Facebook, Thought Machine and currently PlantingSpace. He blends hands-on production engineering with a strong bias for best practices and rapid learning, often choosing Free and Open Source tools so he can inspect and trust the implementation. His work spans backend configuration and operational maintenance—evidenced by contributions to the well-known Heroic time-series project—plus a history of improving observability and deployment reliability at scale. Comfortable both teaching and mentoring, he has given public talks and consistently earns strong feedback for clear communication. Based in Barcelona, he brings practical Unix/Linux depth, Python tooling experience, and a pragmatic, adaptable approach to complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Catalan, Spanish, Swedish
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
java10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
bigtable9
aws-elasticsearch9
elasticsearchquery9
configuration-management9
elasticsearch9
licensing8
query-optimization7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spotify/heroic
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
The Heroic Time Series Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Francesc primarily focused on adding and modifying licensing information across various code files within the repository. They also introduced a new configuration parameter, `batchSize`, for the Bigtable metric backend. Furthermore, the user reverted a change related to query logging and made adjustments to the ES 2.x migration. The changes indicate the user's involvement in both configuration and maintenance tasks within the Heroic project.
time-seriestime-series-databasedatabaseseries-database
zfrank/heroic
Dec 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 9 months
time-seriestime-series-databasedatabaseseries-database
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