Tiago Ilieve is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, operations and backend systems, currently building WordPress at Automattic. He has deep AWS, Linux and Kubernetes expertise, having led migrations from datacenters to cloud and authored tooling in Go to bridge development and infrastructure. At Toggl he worked on Go services backed by PostgreSQL and Redis, and his long-running contributions to bootstrap-vz and Debian Cloud show a focus on reproducible, maintainable system images. Tiago is an active open-source contributor who combines Systems Design curiosity with night-and-weekend programming challenge practice, which keeps his problem-solving skills sharp. Based in Brazil, he brings practical architecture guidance and a bias for automation across the full service lifecycle.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Sistemas de Informação, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Sistemas de Informação at Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros
Bootstrap Debian images for virtualized environments
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
Contributions:2 releases, 107 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tiago primarily contributed to the automation and configuration aspects of the Debian image bootstrapping process. They implemented new plugins for APT proxy and NTP configuration, enhancing the image customization capabilities. Key changes involved refactoring code to use standardized tools and avoid hardcoded paths, while also improving the guest additions installation process and general code style, indicating a focus on build quality and maintainability. The user also made several changes related to the build system, adding the ability to install packages from tasksel and improved the overall bootstrap process, showing a deep understanding of system architecture.
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
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