Matías Bordese is a Staff Software Engineer with 18 years of experience building resilient web and backend systems, currently driving core work at Grafana Labs. He brings deep Python/Django expertise—evidenced by contributions fixing edge cases and tests in the Django project—and practical Golang experience from work on Ubuntu Core services and cloud integrations. At Grafana he implemented cloud notification paths (SMS and phone) tied to Grafana Cloud APIs, showing a knack for reliable, production-ready integration and thoughtful error handling. His background spans services, sync, and store systems at Canonical and hands-on web development across startups and freelance projects, reflecting strong end-to-end ownership. Based in Uruguay, Matías pairs low-level curiosity with pragmatic engineering, often improving test coverage and robustness in mature codebases. He’s equally comfortable stepping into legacy systems to harden behavior and into cloud APIs to extend functionality.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Especialista en Sistemas y Servicios Distribuidos Computer Science, Especialista en Sistemas y Servicios Distribuidos Computer Science at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:47 releases, 626 reviews, 240 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Matías implemented cloud notifications for SMS and phone calls by integrating with Grafana Cloud APIs, as evidenced by changes to models and views related to Twilio and public API endpoints. They introduced a new live setting and updated the notify_user task to utilize Grafana Cloud notifications. The user's commits added functionality for handling both SMS and phone calls and incorporated rate limiting and error handling, reflecting backend development.
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matías primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Django framework. They addressed issues related to the default User model, template handling, flatpages tests, and humanize tests, often involving translation overrides and correct label rendering. The commits demonstrate a focus on ensuring the robustness of existing features and enhancing the test coverage of various Django components. The user also corrected a missing form label in the tabular inline of the admin interface.
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