Waldemar Quevedo
Software Engineer at Synadia Communications Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWaldemar Quevedo is a software engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in high-performance messaging, distributed systems, and web operations, currently based in San Francisco. As a NATS core maintainer and contributor across multiple NATS projects (server, Go, Python, Ruby, operators and exporters), he blends deep protocol-level backend work with practical DevOps expertise—deploying and monitoring clustered messaging at scale on Kubernetes. His track record includes implementing connection monitoring and sorting in the NATS server, building JetStream subscription logic in nats.py, and improving Prometheus exporters and Helm-based NATS deployments. Comfortable across languages and infrastructure, he’s as likely to refactor core client behavior as to script TLS and observability for production clusters. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge protocol design, runtime performance, and operational resilience.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science, Computer Science at Tecnológico de MonterreyRitsumeikan University
Github Skills (45)
monitoring10
kubernetes10
nat10
messaging10
python10
back-end-development10
clientside10
scripting10
jetstream10
testing10
cluster-computing10
distributed-systems10
message-queue10
cicd10
asyncio10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
nats-io/k8s
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
NATS on Kubernetes with Helm Charts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:36 releases, 258 reviews, 534 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Waldemar primarily focused on setting up and maintaining the Kubernetes environment for the NATS project. They were responsible for writing shell scripts to configure NATS components, including setting up secrets, config maps, and deploying various NATS-related applications like Prometheus and Grafana. Their work also involved integrating and configuring the NATS Surveyor tool, indicating a focus on monitoring and observability within the Kubernetes cluster. Furthermore, they integrated the Cert Manager for TLS configurations.
chartsnatshelmhelm-chartsk8s
nats-io/nats-operator
Feb 2018 - Aug 2022
NATS Operator
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 releases, 32 reviews, 367 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Waldemar primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the NATS operator, focusing on code imports, tests, and core controller logic. Their work included updates to the codegen script, improvements in the configuration and state management of the cluster, and enhancements related to the reloader service. They also added support for features such as TLS and gateway configurations, demonstrating expertise in the project's core functionalities and deployment strategies.
natsmessage-queuek8s-operatoroperatorkubernetes
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