Javier Garcia
Member Of Technical Staff at VMware
Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolJavier Garcia is a Cloud and DevOps engineer with a PhD in Cloud Robotics and over 11 years of experience building and validating cloud-native tooling for production systems. He has worked across academia and industry—teaching and researching distributed/cloud offloading for robots before moving into engineering roles at Bitnami, VMware and Broadcom. At Bitnami he focused on Helm chart automation and quality—creating githooks and validation pipelines using yamllint, helm lint and kubeval to harden a widely used charts repository. Javier combines low-level systems knowledge (Linux device drivers, C/C++) with modern Kubernetes and CI/CD practices, enabling reproducible, testable deployments. Based in Seville, he brings both rigorous research discipline and practical operational experience to complex cloud infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of SevilleLeadership Programme - School of Leadership Leadership and Humanities, Leadership Programme - School of Leadership Leadership and Humanities at Universidad Francisco de VitoriaUniversity level preparatory classes (baccalaureate) Science and Engineering, University level preparatory classes (baccalaureate) Science and Engineering at Escuelas Salesianas María AuxiliadoraMaster of Science (MSc) Computer and Software Techniques in Engineering: Software Engineering for Technical Computing, Master of Science (MSc) Computer and Software Techniques in Engineering: Software Engineering for Technical Computing at Cranfield University
English, French, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
sh10
kubernetes10
bash10
script10
shell10
helm10
devops10
scripting10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
blocking6
cmake6
winapi6
java6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
bitnami/charts
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Bitnami Helm Charts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1588 reviews, 675 commits, 3271 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Javier primarily focused on automating and validating the Bitnami Helm Charts repository. Their contributions involved creating and refining githooks, shell scripts that integrate with Helm to perform validation checks during chart development and submission. They implemented and updated various validation steps using `yamllint`, `helm lint`, and `kubeval` to ensure the quality and correctness of the charts. Moreover, they improved the testing process by incorporating the usage of service and version updates for increased chart reliability and accuracy.
chartshelmhelm-chartskubernetesvmware
javsalgar/charts
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Curated applications for Kubernetes
Contributions:6 PRs, 367 pushes, 309 branches in 1 year 11 months
k8skubernetes
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