Ivo Jimenez
Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
Greater Tucson Area United States
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Top SchoolIvo Jimenez is a software engineer and platform specialist with 15 years of experience building automation, testing, and reproducible evaluation tooling for large-scale distributed systems. Currently on Redpanda’s platform engineering team after leading developer productivity and tech lead roles there, he focuses on making streaming and storage projects easier to build, test, and release. His research roots (PhD and Research Scientist at UC Santa Cruz) inform a methodological approach to validation and reproducibility in systems research, exemplified by leading the Popper reproducibility project. An active contributor to high-profile open-source efforts like Redpanda and Ceph’s teuthology, he blends deep academic rigor with hands-on DevOps and CI/CD craft. Based in the Greater Tucson Area, he is particularly skilled at shrinking dependencies and hardening test infrastructure to accelerate dependable shipping of complex distributed software.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Universidad de Sonora
Spanish, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
1,471reputation
238kreached
15answers
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Github Skills (24)
pytest10
python10
cmake10
cicd10
go10
build-automation10
ceph10
test-automation10
testing9
dockers9
docker9
yaml9
documentation8
container8
pandoc6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:4 releases, 469 reviews, 371 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ivo primarily focused on improving the build and testing infrastructure for the Redpanda project. Their commits demonstrate a focus on making utilities standalone, removing dependencies, and fixing formatting issues. These changes included modifications to CMake test scripts, Go code formatting, and adjustments to Dockerfile configurations. They also updated testing dependencies and added a script to invoke ducktape tests.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
ceph/teuthology
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Ceph test suite
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ivo's contributions primarily involve enhancing the test suite for the Ceph test suite (teuthology). They focused on improving test coverage and accuracy by modifying test validation processes and error messages. Additionally, the user contributed to the overall quality and maintainability of the project through updates to the README and setup files.
yangtestingcephfilemakersuite
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