Manuel Mendez
Postgres Deployment Engineer at Supabase
Gainesville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManuel Mendez is a Postgres Deployment Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating networked systems, embedded Wi‑Fi products, and backend telecom infrastructure. He has deep hands‑on expertise in Linux, networking, Go, and bare‑metal provisioning—contributing to notable open‑source projects like tinkerbell/tink where he improved core workflows, CI, and CLI tooling. His career spans roles from embedded firmware to staff engineering at Equinix Metal, demonstrating a knack for bridging low‑level systems work with large‑scale deployment and DevOps practices. Based in Gainesville, FL, Manuel is practical and steady under pressure—true to his GitHub motto “keep calm and ship on”—and often surfaces small infrastructure improvements that yield outsized reliability gains.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyAA, Computer Engineering, AA, Computer Engineering at Miami Dade College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (19)
github-ci10
programming-language10
nix10
command-line-interface10
cicd10
go10
command-line10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
cli10
testing9
data-structure9
protobuffer9
protobuf9
data-structures9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
tinkerbell/tink
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Workflow Engine for provisioning Bare Metal
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:297 reviews, 204 commits, 52 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Manuel primarily contributed to the project's core functionality and build processes. They implemented and improved command-line interface features, enhanced the project's build and testing environment by adding Nix, codespell, and prettier checks to the CI, and refactored code for better organization and maintainability. Additionally, the user refactored and simplified client-side and testing connection logic. Furthermore, the user's contributions included generating mocks and enhancing build processes.
bare-metalprovisioningworkflow-enginebaremetal-provisioningbaremetal
elves/elvish
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Powerful scripting language & versatile interactive shell
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Manuel made several contributions related to the core functionality of the Elvish scripting language. They fixed a bug in the command history feature, ensuring that all commands were processed correctly. Furthermore, the user added support for deleting variables and implemented the `del-var` and `del-vars` commands. They also refactored the namespace functionality by adding a `clone` method and a `DeleteGlobal` method.
interactive-shellscripting-languageshellgounix
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