Rodrigo Valin
Senior Systems Engineer at Google
Dublin, Ireland
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Top SchoolRodrigo Valin is a Senior Systems Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems. He has driven production-grade services at Google and MongoDB, and earlier led site reliability and engineering teams at Groupon, demonstrating a blend of hands-on engineering and operational leadership. Rodrigo’s contributions to prominent open-source projects include deep work on MongoDB Kubernetes operators and packaging MongoDB enterprise operators for the Red Hat OpenShift ecosystem, reflecting strong expertise in operators, Kubernetes, CI/CD and release automation. He pairs low-level systems and Go development—authoring Kubernetes resource and StatefulSet logic—with DevOps discipline around manifests, metadata and scorecard testing. Known for shipping reliable, scalable database services in production, he also brings founder-level product insight from an earlier startup and embedded systems experience building Linux POS solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa MaríaEngineering, Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Science at Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
English
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Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
appbundle10
docker10
package-management10
command-line-interface10
linux10
statefulset10
bundle10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
go10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s-operator10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes-operator
Feb 2020 - May 2022
MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 144 reviews, 57 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo primarily contributed to the operator's core functionality, focusing on the Kubernetes resources definition using Go, specifically related to managing MongoDB deployments within Kubernetes. The user implemented functionalities to define StatefulSets, automation configurations, services, and readiness probes. Additionally, the user worked on setting up the CI/CD pipeline, deploying the operator, and integrating testing frameworks, which indicates a strong involvement in the project's DevOps aspects.
kubernetes-operatormongodb
redhat-openshift-ecosystem/certified-operators
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Production catalog for Red Hat Certified Operator Bundles
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 commits, 16 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo appears to be focused on configuring and releasing MongoDB enterprise operator bundles within the Red Hat OpenShift ecosystem. They are making changes to the `bundle.Dockerfile`, specifically labeling versions, OpenShift compatibility, and defining metadata. The commits indicate work related to multiple releases and versions of the operator, showing a focus on continuous integration and release management. This work includes updating manifests, metadata, and scorecard testing configurations.
operatorredhat
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