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
back-end-development10
python10
clientside10
scripting10
jetstream10
testing10
cluster-computing10
distributed-systems10
message-queue10
cicd10
asyncio10
Programming languages (24)
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, 277 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.
helmkubernetes
nats-io/prometheus-nats-exporter
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
A Prometheus exporter for NATS metrics
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 62 reviews, 89 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Waldemar primarily contributed to enhancing the Prometheus exporter for NATS metrics. They implemented features for collecting streaming metrics, including support for channelsz and serverz. Additionally, the user fixed retry logic, addressed vendor updates, and resolved Travis CI related issues. Their work also included improvements to the exporter's configuration and server ID retrieval, demonstrating a focus on both feature development and operational aspects.
prometheus-exporterprometheusnatspublish-subscribemonitoring
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