Ghe Rivero
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Apple
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGhe Rivero is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in London with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure at scale, currently leading SRE efforts at Apple. He combines deep expertise in Kubernetes, Go, CI/CD and Linux with a long history in OpenStack—contributing backend fixes to Neutron and helping enable multi-database support and more robust VLAN handling. Ghe has led distributed engineering teams and release programs at HPE and managed large production clouds and automation projects, blending project management with hands-on systems design. A Debian developer and former OpenStack stable release maintainer, he brings rare cross-functional knowledge of distribution packaging, deployment tooling (TripleO/Bifrost) and bare-metal provisioning. Colleagues rely on him for dependable operational leadership and pragmatic engineering decisions that avoid theoretical complexity in favor of resilient, measurable outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of LiverpoolMaster E-Commerce (Security), Master E-Commerce (Security) at Universidad de SalamancaBsC Computer Science, BsC Computer Science at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (9)
openvswitch10
sqlalchemy10
python10
networking9
service-design9
service-provider9
configuration-management8
tomcat6
cas6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ghe contributed to the OpenStack Neutron project, focusing on back-end enhancements. Their work included implementing a timeout flag for `ovs-vsctl` commands, addressing a potential infinite waiting issue. They also added SQLAlchemy support, enabling the use of various databases as backends for the OVS plugin. Furthermore, the user improved the `VlanMap` logic, leading to more efficient VLAN management.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
GheRivero/ansible
Mar 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
pythonit-automationdevopsansibleplain-english
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