Salvador Gil
Software Engineer at Tensorlake
Andorra
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Top SchoolSalvador Gil is a seasoned Software Engineer with 12 years building cloud-native platform and infrastructure automation for startups and scale-ups across Europe. He specialises in CI/CD, serverless and multi-tenant EKS architectures, and has led cloud and platform teams to deliver managed database and realtime services. Technically fluent across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform-style tooling and languages like Python, Go and Ruby, he pairs systems thinking with pragmatic automation. As a significant contributor to SurrealDB, he improved graceful shutdown, OpenTelemetry tracing and WebSocket performance in a distributed document-graph database. Based in Andorra, he combines hands-on engineering with interim leadership experience, often moving between deep platform work and product-facing cloud services. Collected across roles from Netlify to Medusa and Xata, his résumé reflects a pattern of building repeatable, observable infrastructures for highly available, multi-tenant systems.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan
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Github Skills (17)
websocket10
websockets-client10
rust10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
tracer9
trace9
opentelemetry9
database8
distributed-database8
databases8
backend7
realtime-database7
backend-as-a-service6
data-service6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
surrealdb/surrealdb
Feb 2023 - Oct 2024
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:227 reviews, 65 PRs, 258 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Salvador contributed to the core functionality of the SurrealDB database, focusing on features related to signal handling, OpenTelemetry tracing, and WebSocket improvements. They implemented graceful shutdown mechanisms in the server and integrated OpenTelemetry for enhanced tracing capabilities. The user also added metrics for the HTTP layer and refactored to Axum, as well as made optimizations for the WebSocket connections. Further contributions included the introduction of datastore capabilities.
realtimedatabase-as-a-serviceserverlessnosql-databasedeveloper-tools
surrealdb/helm-charts
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:14 reviews, 4 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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