Raphael Lopez
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Aiven
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Lopez is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with four years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale distributed data services, currently managing a 150k+ server fleet at Aiven across major cloud providers. He blends Mechatronics engineering rigor with software-first craftsmanship, specializing in Python, Go, infrastructure-as-code, and orchestration for systems like Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and OpenSearch. Passionate about observability, he is actively building OpenTelemetry pipelines to make complex system behavior transparent and actionable. Raphael’s background in embedded systems and IoT gives him a practical edge for low-level diagnostics and resilient design, and he consistently favors simple, elegant solutions to thorny operational problems. Based in Grand Rapids, he brings cross-cloud fluency and a track record of advancing reliability from junior through senior roles within the same fast-growing organization.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
National University of SingaporeBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
French, English, Italian
Github Skills (31)
aiven10
java10
backup10
abstract-syntax-tree9
postgresql9
search-engine9
analytics9
cloud-object-storage9
parser-generator9
database-backups9
grammars9
grammar9
restful9
elasticsearch8
opensearch8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raphlopez/OpenSearch
Mar 2022 - May 2022
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
Contributions:4 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
restfulsearch-engineopensearchmeilisearchelasticsearch
raphlopez/learn-nomad-getting-started
Oct 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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