Héctor Novo
Infrastructure Engineer at Igalia
Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolHéctor Novo is an Infrastructure Engineer and SRE with 11 years of experience designing, securing, and automating cloud infrastructure—currently focused on IaC with Terraform and GitOps on AWS. He has a strong Linux and systems-administration pedigree, built across roles from Director of IT to Infrastructure Team Lead, and has led CI/CD, monitoring, and metrics migrations at scale. At Sketch he developed internal tooling in Go and Python, maintained SLOs for ECS-hosted services, and built reusable CircleCI/GitHub pipelines; he now continues that trajectory at Igalia. Héctor is an active open-source contributor who enhanced Lua scripting and text-rendering in the popular Mudlet MUD client, reflecting a knack for pragmatic, low-level problem solving. Known for thorough documentation and runbooks, he combines troubleshooting persistence with a collaborative mindset that breaks silos. Fast to learn new stacks, he balances operational reliability with maintainable developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico superior en desarrollo de aplicaciones informáticas Informática, Técnico superior en desarrollo de aplicaciones informáticas Informática at A piringalla
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
lua10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
qt9
c-plusplus9
c179
cross-platform8
trigger8
text-based7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Mudlet/Mudlet
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
⚔️ A cross-platform, open source, and super fast MUD client with scripting in Lua
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Héctor primarily contributed to the Lua scripting functionality within the Mudlet client, adding new functions to interact with the game's console and windows. They implemented the `getColumnCount` and `getRowCount` functions, which calculate character and row counts. The user also modified the `ansi2decho` function in Lua for better handling of ANSI text with bold formatting, crucial for correct text rendering. Additionally, they made adjustments to the codebase to incorporate a new default MUD server and fix return types.
gamec-plus-plus-17multi-user-dungeondefoldrpg
hluaces/bofhers-monkeys
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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