Jaime Silvela
Principal SDE at EDB
Villanueva de la Cañada, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJaime Silvela is a Principal SDE based near Madrid with 15 years building resilient, data-driven systems across cloud and enterprise domains. He specializes in Go, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes operators, currently shaping production Postgres lifecycle management at EDB and contributing to the CloudNativePG project’s test and API maintenance. His background spans high-scale infrastructure at Amazon, UX component libraries at Microsoft, and domain-focused platforms for catastrophe modeling, reflecting a rare blend of systems, databases and applied math. Jaime moves fluidly between backend architecture, DevOps and test automation, often removing brittle dependencies and modernizing CI/E2E flows. Collected experience in finance, risk modeling and cloud-native databases gives him a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability in complex distributed systems. He combines formal CS/EE training with hands-on engineering instincts that surface in both code and operational improvements.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Basic Medical Sciences, Certificate Basic Medical Sciences at University of WashingtonMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBS/MS Electrical Engineering (ETSI Telecomunicaciones), BS/MS Electrical Engineering (ETSI Telecomunicaciones) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
postgresql10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
testing9
failover9
database-management9
operator8
plugin7
kubectl7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
The most popular Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:827 reviews, 99 commits, 288 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jaime's commits primarily focus on dropping support for older API versions, likely related to Kubernetes resource definitions. They also contributed to test infrastructure by adding a test label and updating the test report script. Furthermore, the user updated the E2E tests to avoid depending on git history presence. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving the project's build and test automation within a Kubernetes environment.
kubernetes-operatorpostgresqlpostgreskubernetesk8s
jsilvela/para
Jul 2015 - Jun 2022
Contributions:16 pushes in 7 years
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