Diego Fronza
Senior Software Engineer at Smallstep
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Top SchoolDiego Fronza is a senior software engineer with over two decades of experience building reliable, secure backend systems in C/C++, Go, and Python. He has deep systems and network expertise from projects like BIND and high-performance database tooling such as pg_stat_monitor for PostgreSQL, and has shipped production services using Docker, Kubernetes and GCP. Diego blends low-level systems programming (device drivers, ISO 8583 payment platforms) with cloud-native service design, making him comfortable across the stack from kernel-space to distributed APIs. He’s an active open-source contributor with visible commits to major projects and a history of creating OSS tooling used in production. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he brings practical leadership from multi-year roles at Percona, ISC, Cased and startups, often mentoring small teams while shipping complex features. Outside work he pursues fishing, martial arts and a fascination with old history—hints of the patient, disciplined approach he applies to software problems.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
North Paraná University
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
c1710
databases10
postgresql10
c1110
database10
sql9
distributed-database9
distributed-systems9
database-administration9
cpp7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
darkfronza/alien-invasion
Mar 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
darkfronza/pg_stat_monitor
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
PostgreSQL Statistics Collector
Contributions:16 pushes, 44 branches in 8 months
statisticspostgresql-statisticspostgresstatistics-collectorpostgresql
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