Marc Villacorta
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMarc Villacorta is a senior software and infrastructure engineer based in Barcelona with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms and resilient systems. Currently at GitHub on Compute Platform and Service Mesh teams, he brings deep SRE and DevOps expertise from prior roles at New Relic and Softonic, where he built automation, container fabrics, and scalable orchestration across Mesos, Kubernetes and CoreOS. He is a pragmatic systems architect who balances developer usability with operational manageability, optimizing service density and data center efficiency to reduce costs. An active contributor to containerized Ceph deployments, Marc has improved OSD bootstrapping and runtime manageability—evidence of his focus on making complex distributed storage easier to run in production. His background spans telco, embedded Linux and early ISP web projects, giving him a rare mix of low-level systems, networking and cloud platform experience.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaCloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop CCDH, Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop CCDH at Cloudera, Inc.CCNA CISCO Certified Network Associate, CCNA CISCO Certified Network Associate at CNAP - CISCO Networking Academy ProgramLPIC 1 Linux Professional Institute Certification, LPIC 1 Linux Professional Institute Certification at Thomson Prometric Sydney
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (12)
ceph10
sh10
container10
script10
docker10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
automation9
automations9
configuration-management9
linux8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ceph/ceph-container
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Docker files and images to run Ceph in containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 27 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Marc's commits primarily focused on improving the containerized Ceph deployment. They addressed issues related to OSD bootstrapping, configuration management using key-value stores, and the retrieval of the monmap. The changes streamlined the container startup process and included options for better managing the admin key, improving the overall robustness and manageability of the Ceph cluster within containers. These updates demonstrate an effort to enhance the container's operational efficiency.
containersdocker-imagedocker-filesdockerceph
softonic/kubewatch
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
Kubernetes API event watcher
Contributions:9 releases, 55 commits, 6 PRs in 10 months
apiwatcherkuberneteskubernetes-apicommand-line
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