Salah Al Saleh is a Senior Software Engineer II based in Los Angeles with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems, databases, and cross-platform mobile apps. At Replicated he progressed from Core Engineer to Senior Software Engineer II, shipping production-grade features for cloud-native deployments. He contributes to open-source projects like SchemaHero, where he implemented an rqlite driver and tackled complex MySQL charset/collation issues—demonstrating deep database and operator expertise. Earlier in his career he built consumer-facing mobile applications that collectively surpassed one million downloads and delivered domain-specific platforms for healthcare and real estate. Salah combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for database internals and deployment automation, often improving error handling and dependency hygiene in large codebases. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Jordan and brings a blend of startup agility and production reliability to platform engineering challenges.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at University of Jordan
A Kubernetes operator for declarative database schema management (gitops for database schemas)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Contributions:28 reviews, 15 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Salah primarily contributed to database schema management and rqlite driver implementation. They fixed MySQL syntax issues, focusing on character sets and collations. They updated dependencies, including a Prometheus client, and added the rqlite driver, which involved significant code additions for deploying and managing rqlite databases. Furthermore, the user improved error messages and updated the gorqlite connector.
Contributions:9 reviews, 10 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year
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