Roberto Selbach
Senior Software Engineer at IBM
Lévis, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorRoberto Selbach is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating backend systems and cloud-native infrastructure across startups and large, geo-dispersed teams. He’s built high-throughput microservices in Go, maintained identity and authentication layers, and operated Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines at companies like HashiCorp, Manifold, and Kard, now continuing at IBM. A hands-on mentor and problem-solver, he blends deep systems engineering with practical DevOps practices to reliably ship production services at scale. He contributes to open source documentation and usability—improving Go validator tooling with clearer examples and added APIs—reflecting a focus on developer experience as well as robust engineering. Based in Lévis, Quebec, he brings a long history of driving projects from low-level firmware and Linux migrations to modern cloud platforms, revealing a rare breadth across decades of evolving infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (6)
go10
software-design10
documentation10
validators10
api-design9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
go-validator/validator
Apr 2014 - Feb 2016
Package validator implements struct field validations
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Roberto primarily contributed to the package's documentation, adding comprehensive examples and explanations of the validator's usage. They provided detailed documentation within the `doc.go` file, clarifying the purpose, functionality, and validation rules of the package. Additionally, the user introduced a `WithTag` method and example usage of the `SetTag` method, enhancing the validator's flexibility. These changes focused on improving the usability and clarity of the `validator` package.
golangvalidationvalidationsgovalidator
robteix/unico
Dec 2011 - Jan 2015
Contributions:28 commits in 3 years 1 month
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