Harold Giménez
Sr. Vice President, Engineering at Chainlink Labs
Miami, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarold Giménez is a seasoned technology executive with 17 years building developer tooling and data infrastructure, now leading Engineering, Product, and Design at Supabase from Miami. His career spans senior engineering leadership at HashiCorp, Chainlink Labs and Heroku, where he combined hands-on backend and database work with product and organizational strategy. A pragmatic engineer at heart, he has contributed to well-known open-source projects like heroku-pg-extras and the Sequel Ruby toolkit, improving PostgreSQL tooling and adapter reliability. He excels at scaling teams and systems for cloud-native environments while retaining a deep focus on database performance and developer experience. Colleagues describe him as a builder who translates low-level technical improvements into measurable product and operational gains.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering at Suffolk University
Github Skills (9)
heroku10
database-management10
database-connector10
adaptor10
database-driver10
postgresql10
sql10
adapter10
ruby10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/heroku-pg-extras
Mar 2013 - Jan 2015
Role in this project:
Backend & Database Engineer
Backend & Database EngineerContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Harold primarily focused on enhancing the `heroku-pg-extras` plugin, a tool for PostgreSQL database management on Heroku. Their contributions involved deprecating and standardizing commands, implementing new features such as `pg:bloat`, and refining existing functionalities including the `long_running_queries` feature. They made stylistic improvements in SQL queries and Ruby code, thereby improving the plugin's utility and maintainability.
herokuheroku-cli-plugingreat
jeremyevans/sequel
May 2009 - Apr 2012
Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:9 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Harold primarily focused on enhancing the database adapter for the Sequel Ruby library, specifically for the ADO and PostgreSQL adapters. Their work included adding a `:command_timeout` option to the ADO adapter, allowing users to set timeouts for database commands. They also implemented the `TRUNCATE CASCADE` functionality in the PostgreSQL adapter and made minor improvements like renaming the timeout property.
sequelmysqlsqlrubytoolkit
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