Xabier Larrakoetxea
Site Reliability Engineer at Speaker
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolXabier Larrakoetxea is a Site Reliability Engineer with 15 years of experience building highly automated, scalable platforms and backend tooling, currently at Fonoa in Madrid. He blends deep expertise in Go, Kubernetes, observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and chaos engineering with a developer-first approach stemming from his backend roots. Xabier has architected PaaS solutions, Kubernetes operators, CI/CD flows and migrated hundreds of microservices, including significant open-source contributions to projects like Zalando’s skipper and Brigade. He focuses on reducing toil through pragmatic automation, GitOps for dashboards, and tooling that enforces reliability and security at scale. A long-time GNU/Linux and open source advocate, he pairs hands-on coding with mentoring and internal evangelism of SLO-driven observability. Outside work he’s a metalhead, which he jokes keeps him calm during outage windows.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer engineering, BSc (Hons), Computer engineering at Universidad de Deusto
English, Basque, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
kubernetes10
docker10
virtual-environment10
python10
testing10
proxy10
dockers10
cicd10
http-proxy10
go10
prometheus10
kubernetes-pods10
routers9
router9
ingress-controller9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
slok/sloth
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
🦥 Easy and simple Prometheus SLO (service level objectives) generator
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 23 reviews, 482 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Xabier primarily contributed to setting up the initial structure and core dependencies of the project, as well as building the binary. The user also added a plugin for the SLI metric and the necessary code to load it. Furthermore, the user implemented the means of triggering and running the tests as a part of the CI/CD process.
controlleropensloobservabilityoperatorprometheus
zalando/skipper
May 2017 - May 2018
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Xabier primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the `skipper` project, focusing on Kubernetes integration and metrics. They implemented features to support the `kubernetes.io/ingress.class` annotation for filtering ingresses. Furthermore, they added Prometheus metrics, including the refactoring of metrics backends, addition of new metrics, and the implementation of a metrics endpoint. The user also improved tracing by enhancing the tags and log information.
casesproxyingress-controllercontourreverse-proxy
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