Horacio Durán
Co-Founder at ShipHero
Anglet, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Summary
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Top SchoolHoracio Durán is a cloud and DevOps-focused technology leader with 18 years of experience building and operating distributed systems and automated deployments. As a co-founder of DUMONTIX and current Engineering Manager at ShipHero, he blends hands-on infrastructure architecture with team leadership to deliver sovereign cloud solutions and resilient deployment pipelines. He has deep Go experience from time at Canonical and contributions that improved robustness in database migration tooling, demonstrating attention to operational correctness. His background spans startups and product firms—shaping teams, consulting on infrastructure, and driving self-healing, upgradeable cloud platforms. Based in Anglet, France, he combines an engineer’s rigor with entrepreneurial drive to help organizations own their infrastructure stack. Colleagues describe him as passionate about automation and increasingly focused on steering teams toward sustainable, self-managing systems.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Programming Technician, Software Development, Database Design, Programming Technician, Software Development, Database Design at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
database-migrations10
database-migration10
go10
sql10
testing10
error-handling9
python6
django6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jackc/tern
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
The SQL Fan's Migrator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Horacio primarily focused on improving the robustness of the migration process within the `tern` project. They added a flag to enforce that forward migration steps contain SQL statements, preventing empty or comment-only migrations. Additionally, the user implemented more informative error messages and refined test cases to validate this new behavior. These changes enhance the project's reliability and prevent potential issues during database schema migrations.
postgresqlmigratorsql
perrito666/goSQLMarshal
Jan 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
golanggo-packagesql-statementssqlstatements
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