Nicolas Vazquez
Head Of Customer Engineering at The Apache Software Foundation
Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Top SchoolNicolas Vazquez is a seasoned cloud engineering leader with 11 years of experience, currently Head of Customer Engineering at ShapeBlue in Montevideo, Uruguay. He progressed from hands-on Java development to leading engineering teams and customer-facing technical strategy, having spent nearly a decade at ShapeBlue and earlier roles at Globant and Scanntech. An Apache CloudStack PMC member and former VP/PMC Chair, Nicolas brings deep expertise in virtualization and IaaS, with notable open-source contributions enhancing VMware integration, VM lifecycle reliability, and storage/network handling in the widely used Apache CloudStack project. He blends product-minded leadership with low-level infrastructure debugging—comfortable drilling into hypervisor APIs and VNC/VM migration subtleties while guiding customer implementations. Trained as a computer engineer at Universidad de la República, he is known for turning complex virtualization quirks into stable, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero en Computacion, Computer Engineering, Ingeniero en Computacion, Computer Engineering at Universidad de la República
Spanish, English
Github Skills (4)
virtualization10
java9
javas9
apache-cloudstack9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/cloudstack
Oct 2015 - Dec 2022
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 902 reviews, 378 commits in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the integration of VMware functionalities within the Apache CloudStack platform. The commits demonstrate a focus on supporting features like deploy-as-is deployments, handling network configuration, and ensuring proper volume management in VMware environments. Their work includes modifications to handle VNC passwords, improve the reliability of VM migrations, and address template registration issues, indicating a focus on the underlying infrastructure and virtualization technologies. These efforts involve working with VMware-specific APIs, configurations, and VM lifecycle processes.
pythonapache-cloudstackxcp-nghostingcloud-computing
nvazquez/cloudstack-documentation
Sep 2018 - Feb 2025
Apache CloudStack Documentation
Contributions:63 pushes, 55 branches in 6 years 6 months
apache-cloudstackapachecloudcloudstackjava
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