Juan Borda
Site Reliability Engineering Technical Leader at dLocal
Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolJuan Borda is a Site Reliability Engineering Technical Leader with 14 years of experience designing and operating medium-to-large scale containerized applications and developer tooling. He combines hands-on DevOps, SRE, and application architecture expertise with a strong preference for open-source stacks—Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Go and Linux feature heavily in his work. Juan has led SRE efforts at high-growth companies like Wildlife Studios and dLocal, guiding cloud migrations, pipeline automation, and resilience improvements across payments and gaming environments. His background includes long-term public sector systems work for Argentina’s Ministry of Industry, giving him practical experience in regulated, government-grade information systems and project management. An early programmer (coding since age 8) and active open-source contributor, he improved CodeIgniter’s database handling with an unbuffered_row() optimization that reflects his focus on performance and memory efficiency. Based in Argentina, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic, process-oriented approach to reliability and developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
incomplete Ingeniería Electrónica e Industrial, incomplete Ingeniería Electrónica e Industrial at Universidad Nacional de La Plata
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
query-tuning10
database-tuning10
query-optimization10
php10
database-design10
database-optimization10
documentation9
git6
codeigniter6
github6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bcit-ci/CodeIgniter
May 2012 - May 2012
Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 2 days
Contributions summary:Juan primarily focused on enhancing the database interaction capabilities within the CodeIgniter framework. They introduced an `unbuffered_row()` function to improve memory efficiency when handling large result sets. Additionally, the user added documentation and corrected some minor issues related to the function's usage and code formatting within both the core framework files and the user guide. This demonstrates a contribution to improving the framework's performance and documentation.
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juanitomint/k3s-cluster
Sep 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
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