Robert Navarro
Software Engineer at Square
Corona, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Navarro is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in infrastructure, platform reliability, and large-scale MySQL operations. At Block (Square) he owned the Tier 0 Items service—a 256-node, 50TB+ MySQL/Aurora cluster serving every merchant globally—and led five zero-downtime infrastructure migrations including multi-region active/active reads and a 50TB resharding. He built AuthProxy, a Go/Kubernetes credential platform handling 1M+ credentials and 500K automated refreshes/hour, and served as a Terraform SME mentoring 15+ engineers to eliminate single points of failure. Earlier he ran one of the first production Vitess-on-Kubernetes deployments at Stitch Labs and contributed to the upstream Vitess codebase, demonstrating deep expertise in scaling MySQL horizontally. Equally comfortable in hands-on incident response and strategic architecture, he also operates a multi-site BGP network peering at four IXPs—an indicator of his operational depth beyond typical software roles. Robert is actively seeking remote Staff SRE, Staff Platform Engineer, or Principal Infrastructure Reliability opportunities.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
go10
mysql10
database9
kubernetes-pods9
admin9
sharding9
database-cluster9
database-administration9
kubernetes9
databases9
schema-design8
schema-org8
schema8
cnc7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vitessio/vitess
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 23 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to the Vitess codebase by implementing, modifying, and debugging server-side logic. Their commits include changes to core components like the throttler, binlog streamer, and schema manager. The user also added logging, fixed errors, and made enhancements to existing features, demonstrating a focus on improving the system's reliability and functionality.
mysqltidbhorizontal-scalingsqlvitess
libdns/directadmin
May 2023 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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