Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck
Founder & Product Builder at Basekick Labs
Montevideo, Montevideo, Costa Rica
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Top SchoolIgnacio Van Droogenbroeck is a founder and product builder with 6+ years focused on high-throughput, open-source data infrastructure and a long tail of earlier cloud and sales engineering experience. At Basekick Labs he leads Arc, a DuckDB+Parquet columnar analytics engine, and revived Liftbridge, a lightweight Kafka-style streamer—both production-ready and designed to keep data portable and vendor-free. His background spans product strategy, solutions architecture, and developer enablement from roles at InfluxData and Microsoft to running a venture studio that shipped serverless analytics and time-series archiving products. Ignacio combines hands-on engineering (Go, Python, DuckDB, Parquet) with GTM and community growth skills—Liftbridge’s relaunch reached 60K+ developers in 48 hours and sparked rapid contributor interest. He’s obsessed with infrastructure that “feels invisible”: high throughput, low cost, and minimal ops friction. Based in Montevideo, he builds tools he wishes he’d had as a practitioner and enjoys talking about streaming, columnar analytics, and AI/observability infra.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science in Communication, Journalism, Communications, Public Relationship., Bachelor's of Science in Communication, Journalism, Communications, Public Relationship. at UADE
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (103)
timeseries-database10
reboot10
postgresql10
athena10
telegraf10
portainer10
docker-container10
gossip10
dockerfile10
influxdb10
monitoring10
influx10
docker-compose10
compose10
kapacitor10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
exydata/exydata-cli
Apr 2023 - Jul 2024
Contributions:57 releases, 84 pushes, 113 tags in 1 year 3 months
xe-nvdk/xe-nvdk
Jul 2020 - Mar 2024
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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