Manuel Chacón
Engineering Manager at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolManuel Chacón is an engineering manager with 15 years of hands-on experience building and operating distributed systems, databases, and cloud-native infrastructure across companies like Google and AWS. He combines deep PostgreSQL and Kubernetes expertise—evidenced by contributions to Zalando’s widely used postgres-operator—with a passion for functional programming and reliability engineering. A longtime coder and teacher who started programming at 11, he prioritizes empathy, mentorship, and helping teams focus on impactful work. Manuel has led teams shipping developer-facing database automation and observability tooling at scale, and he brings a pragmatic, safety-first mindset to systems that must stay running under pressure.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at Universidad Simón Bolívar
English, Spanish, French, Japanese, German
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Github Skills (14)
golang10
kubernetes10
cluster-computing10
go10
postgresql10
devops10
clustering10
kubernetes-pods10
operator10
dockers9
docker9
function-pointers6
abstract-class6
bash6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/postgres-operator
Nov 2017 - May 2018
Postgres operator creates and manages PostgreSQL clusters running in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 13 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily focused on enhancing the integration of a Scalyr agent sidecar for log shipping within the Kubernetes environment. They added configuration variables and pod annotations to facilitate this integration, allowing the inclusion of the PostgreSQL pod name and namespace in Scalyr logs. Furthermore, the user modified the StatefulSet comparison logic to include container names and label selectors to improve update accuracy and reduce unnecessary rolling updates. They also updated the configuration file.
golangclustersdatabase-as-a-servicemanaged-servicespostgresql-clusters
mgomezch/Pekomin
May 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:108 commits in 10 months
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