Hector Gandara
Staff Software Engineer at Confluent
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHector Gandara is a Staff Software Engineer and platform specialist with 16 years of experience building and automating Linux/Unix systems, cloud infrastructures and PaaS solutions from seed prototypes to production at scale. Based in London, he blends deep DevOps craft—Chef, Ansible, Terraform, BOSH, Concourse and Cloud Foundry—with hands-on coding in Go, Python, Java and C/C++, driving reliability and continuous delivery across enterprise and government programs. He’s a pragmatic open-source contributor who has improved Terraform’s AWS provider, enhanced Concourse git-resource security, and added routing and dashboard features to widely used projects, showing both systems-level judgment and full‑stack polish. Known for fostering cross-team knowledge sharing and automating toil away, Hector prefers tightly coupled collaboration with developers to deliver resilient, auditable platforms. Unusually, he combines formal CS training with a long history of migrating major PaaS deployments and normalizing JSON/policy behaviors to prevent unnecessary churn in production.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Enginering., Software Development, IT Systems and architecture, Project Management, AI, Mathematics basis., Computer Enginering., Software Development, IT Systems and architecture, Project Management, AI, Mathematics basis. at Universidade da Coruña
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (48)
json10
git10
puppeteer10
cloud-computing10
puppet10
scripting10
testing10
aix10
http10
graphite10
bash10
proxy-protocol10
terraform10
cicd10
ruby10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
concourse/git-resource
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
tracks commits in a branch of a Git repository
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 27 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Hector significantly enhanced the `git-resource` repository by introducing features related to metadata output, specifically including branch and tag information. They implemented support for configuring git options, enabling users to customize git behavior. Furthermore, the user added functionality to verify signed commits using GPG keys, improving security and ensuring the integrity of commits. The changes involve modifications to `assets/common.sh`, `test/get.sh`, `test/put.sh`, `test/check.sh` and `test/helpers.sh`.
commitsgit-repositorytracks
cloudfoundry/gorouter
Jul 2016 - Nov 2018
CF Router
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 21 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hector contributed to the `gorouter` project by implementing and testing features related to proxy protocols and HTTP header manipulation. They added functionality to handle Proxy Protocol headers, including timeouts, and implemented tests for the `ProxyResponseWriter`. Furthermore, the user introduced features to inject and remove HTTP headers in responses. These changes focused on enhancing the router's capabilities in handling network traffic and response customization.
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