Michael Baamonde
Head Of Platform
United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael Baamonde is a seasoned platform and infrastructure leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-performance systems across Elastic, Equinix, and Supabase, where he now leads Platform. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing to prominent open-source projects like Elastic's Rally benchmarking tool and its track specs—with executive leadership in core engineering and platform teams. Known for improving CI/CD, test automation, and benchmarking infrastructure, he moves teams toward more reliable, measurable performance outcomes. Michael pairs deep backend and DevOps expertise with a track record of refactoring and operationalizing complex systems, and he often surfaces pragmatic fixes that improve developer workflows and observability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
github-ci10
pytest10
python10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
cicd10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
githubaction-workflow10
test-automation10
elasticsearch-api10
asyncio9
devops9
jenkins-ci9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/rally
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
Macrobenchmarking framework for Elasticsearch
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:69 reviews, 11 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the improvement of the Rally framework's testing infrastructure and core functionality. They refactored code related to the Elasticsearch client, moving it into its own package for better organization. Additionally, the user addressed several issues including the correct function calls for search operations, creating API keys for each simulated client, and optimizing the logging. Moreover, they improved the CI/CD pipeline by migrating Jenkins job definitions and parallelizing PR checks.
benchmarkbenchmarkingelasticsearch
elastic/rally-tracks
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Track specifications for the Elasticsearch benchmarking tool Rally
Role in this project:DevOps & Test Automation Engineer
DevOps & Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to enhancing the project's testing infrastructure and CI/CD processes. They implemented integration tests using `pytest-rally` and set up dependency management and test execution with `hatch`. The user also added Jenkins job configurations for automated builds and deployments, as well as addressing CI/CD related fixes. Additionally, they made changes to the test configuration and marked a test as an expected failure while investigating the root cause.
benchmarkingrallyspecificationselasticsearch
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