Naikel Aparicio
Director Of Operations And Support
Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolNaikel Aparicio is a seasoned Director of Operations and Support with 15+ years designing and running cloud-native infrastructure, data centers, and multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCE. A computer engineer by training, he combines deep Unix/Linux systems expertise, network engineering (Cisco, IPSec/OpenVPN), and database administration with hands-on development in Java, Python, C/C++, and embedded/mobile platforms. He led full migrations from physical datacenters to cloud, built an in‑house SMPP gateway in Spring Boot, and manages tiered support, training, and pre-sales technical engagements while reporting directly to the CEO. An avid reverse engineer and developer hobbyist, he authored Yappari, a third‑party WhatsApp client for the Nokia N900, and contributes backend and WebUI improvements to the popular qBittorrent project. Practical, self-motivated, and security-focused, he excels at turning complex networked systems and proprietary protocols into reliable, production-ready services.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidad Simón Bolívar
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
webui10
torrent10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
bittorrent10
standard-library9
c-libraries9
cpp-library9
cross-platform9
javascript8
http7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
qbittorrent/qBittorrent
Oct 2015 - May 2017
qBittorrent BitTorrent client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 246 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Naikel made several significant contributions to the qBittorrent project, focusing primarily on backend functionalities and WebUI improvements. They updated the `TorrentHandle` class by changing payload functions to use `qlonglong` for improved data handling. Furthermore, they added cookie support and implemented features to improve the user interface of WebUI download and upload. Additionally, the user fixed a bug related to file uploads and implemented share limit by seeding time functionality.
qbittorrentbittorrentc-plus-plustorrent-clienttorrent
naikel/qBittorrent
Oct 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:67 pushes, 11 branches, 2 comments in 6 years 10 months
bittorrent-clientbittorrentqbittorrenttorrent
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