Joaquin Casares is a Senior Solutions Architect with 15 years building and operating large-scale data systems, currently based in San Antonio. He blends deep distributed-database experience (notably with Apache Cassandra and contributions to DataStax and cassandra-ccm) with hands-on DevOps and reliability work, automating deployments and observability for production systems. Joaquin has a track record across startups and established teams—from Adobe and Audius to DataStax—shipping resilient back-end platforms and improving testing and deployment tooling. A self-described "data runner" and pedant, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with a background in digital media and product-focused consulting. He often surfaces non-obvious improvements in build and test infrastructure, turning brittle processes into repeatable, debuggable pipelines.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
The Audius Protocol - Freedom to share, monetize, and listen to any audio content.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Back-end Developer
Contributions:298 reviews, 362 commits, 383 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Joaquin's contributions primarily focused on automating the deployment and setup of the Audius Protocol, as well as improving the logging infrastructure. They automated documentation changes, added new features like metrics and alerts for Prometheus, and streamlined the development environment setup process with new tools. The user also addressed build and deployment issues, and updated various configurations.
Contributions:132 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 11 months
Contributions summary:Joaquin's contributions primarily involve improving the DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra. They focused on enhancing the library's support for the libev event loop, including the addition of installation instructions for various operating systems and tests. Additionally, the user was responsible for implementing changes to improve the performance and reliability of the testing infrastructure.
python-driverpythoncassandraapachedatastax
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Joaquin Casares - Senior Solutions Architect at AxonOps