Martin Arrieta
Enterprise Support Engineer at PlanetScale
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolMartin Arrieta is an Enterprise Support Engineer with 12 years of deep expertise managing MySQL databases, backups, clustering, and Linux-based infrastructure. He has progressed from hands-on roles as a MySQL DBA and systems administrator to leadership positions including Lead Technical Architect and Engineering Manager at Fastly, and now supports enterprise customers at PlanetScale. Martin is skilled in automation with shell scripting and Python, network/security tooling like iptables, and designing resilient backup and disaster recovery strategies. He consistently combines incident response and post-incident analysis with proactive monitoring and tooling to prevent recurrence. Based in Montevideo, Uruguay, he brings a pragmatic, operations-first perspective honed across consultative roles at Percona and Pythian. Less obvious: his career reflects a long-running blend of CTO-level strategic thinking at startups and deep technical troubleshooting at scale, making him equally adept at architecture and day-to-day reliability work.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (81)
benchmark10
sysbench10
aws-s310
migrate10
mysql-proxy10
neo4j10
tarantool10
cassandra10
twitter-api10
mongodb10
percona10
migration10
spanner10
migration-tool10
twitter9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
martinarrieta/go-dump
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 62 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
martinarrieta/python-instagram
Jun 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 pushes in 8 months
apipythoninstagram-apipython-clientinstagram
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