Giuseppe Maxia
Valencian Community, Spain
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RockstarGiuseppe Maxia is a seasoned systems analyst, database designer and backend engineer with roots in programming since 1986 and a 17-year track record in enterprise and open-source database ecosystems. He has led community and QA teams at MySQL, directed QA at Continuent, and spent a decade shaping backend quality and deployment tooling at VMware, blending hands-on coding with architecture and testing of distributed systems. A practitioner in C/C++, Perl, SQL and DevOps scripting, he specializes in designing and migrating data systems, performance-focused schema and partitioning strategies, and automating MySQL sandbox deployments (notably contributing to the well-known dbdeployer and test_db projects). Based in the Valencian Community, he combines deep legacy-system know-how with a maker’s mentality—building exploration tools that make difficult things easy—and a practical focus on making migrations reliable and maintainable.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English, Italian, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (22)
deploying10
mysql10
scripting10
testing10
bash10
database-administration10
sql10
database-design10
database-management10
replication10
devops10
mstest9
teste9
testing-library9
ui-testing9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
datacharmer/test_db
Aug 2015 - May 2022
A sample MySQL database with an integrated test suite, used to test your applications and database servers
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:1 release, 22 commits, 11 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Giuseppe primarily focused on the design and implementation of a sample MySQL database, including schema creation, data loading, and testing. Their contributions involve defining tables, specifying data types, and setting up partitioning strategies to enhance performance. They also introduced compatibility testing and created views to access data effectively. Moreover, they added functions and procedures to aid in database management.
sqlservermysqlintegrateddatabase-serversdatabase
datacharmer/dbdeployer
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
DBdeployer is a tool that deploys MySQL database servers easily.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:131 releases, 5 reviews, 515 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Giuseppe's contributions primarily focused on the development of a database server deployment tool in the context of MySQL sandboxes. Their work involved the creation of scripts and the modification of existing templates to enhance the tool's functionality. This included implementing support for various replication topologies, such as master/slave, fan-in, and group replication. They also worked on the integration of shell commands and the creation of a tool to generate customized scripts for a user to run the commands.
mysqltarballdeploymentdatabase-serverssandbox
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