Joaquin Menchaca
Software Engineer
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoaquin Menchaca is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in cloud-native platforms, observability, progressive delivery, and service mesh. He blends hands-on platform engineering with DevOps and infrastructure expertise, having implemented multi-region AWS CloudFormation, automated Azure Blob backups, and cross-architecture release tooling for high-performance systems. His open-source contributions include infrastructure and deployment work for the Dgraph project, where he improved marketplace integration, multi-region support, and cluster orchestration for a real-time graph database. Practical and systems-oriented, Joaquin focuses on operational reliability and automation while bridging gaps between developer workflows and production-grade deployments.
12 years of coding experience
English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
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Github Skills (25)
docker10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
golang10
infrastructure-as-code10
automations10
devops10
go-modules9
distributed-systems9
azure-blob-storage9
database8
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
dgraph-io/dgraph
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Role in this project:
DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer
DevOps & Infrastructure EngineerContributions:6 releases, 67 reviews, 89 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Joaquin primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the project. They worked on setting up and configuring AWS CloudFormation scripts for marketplace integration, including enhancements for multi-region support, and fixing related errors. The user also focused on automating backup procedures for Azure Blob storage, generating configuration files and secrets for Minio and Dgraph within a Docker-compose environment, and enhancing the release scripts to support various GOARCH architectures. Moreover, they updated the systemd unit configurations for a six-node cluster.
graph-databasedatabasedistributedgoknowledge-graph
darkn3rd/blog_tutorials
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
These are code related to tutorials created
Contributions:1 release, 132 commits, 79 PRs in 4 years 4 months
javajavascriptpython
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