Marcelo Magallon
Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
San José, San Jose Province, Costa Rica
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Top SchoolMarcelo Magallon is a Principal Software Engineer based in San José, Costa Rica, with over a decade of experience building high-performance distributed systems, embedded software, and scientific visualization tools. He brings deep expertise in Golang, Linux, HPC clusters, and simulation/graphics from roles spanning Grafana Labs, Sylabs, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he worked on mobility embedded software and monitoring platforms. A Ph.D.-level researcher and former university lecturer in physics and computational methods, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering to solve complex systems problems. He has a long history in Linux and open-source communities dating back to Debian involvement in the 1990s and founding the Costa Rica Linux user group, underscoring a commitment to collaborative software ecosystems. Known for bridging low-level embedded constraints with scalable cloud-native monitoring, he frequently moves between deep technical implementation and architecture-level thinking.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
High school diploma, High school diploma at Colegio CientíficoDr.rer.nat. Computer Science, Dr.rer.nat. Computer Science at University of StuttgartMSc Physics, MSc Physics at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
English, German, Spanish, French
Github Skills (9)
programming-language8
golang8
switch8
go7
interpreter6
p4lang6
compiler5
odin3
goplus1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OpenSwitchNOS/openswitch-ops-build
Nov 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:35 commits in 7 months
notmem/behavioral-model
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
cppbehavioralauto-generatedrewritegenerated-code
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