Jaime Silvela

Madrid, Spain — preference for fully-remote work
Email: jaime.silvela@mailfence.com

SUMMARY

Highly experienced, mathematically minded, with good communication skills. Preference for Go as programming language, PostgreSQL as database. Been working on Kubernetes operators for PostgreSQL since 2021.

EXPERIENCE

EDB — Principal Engineer — remote – Madrid, December 2023
EDB — Senior Engineer — remote – Madrid, October 2021

Core team member for development of Kubernetes operators for Postgres. Led the implementation of several features of CloudNativePG (declarative roles, tablespaces, databases, publications). Created Ciclops, a completely new CI/CD tool to provide intelligence on test runs. Made numerous improvements to tests, wrote and improved documentation, gave presentations, created and ran the community Office Hours for CloudNativePG for over a year.

Consentio — Engineering — Madrid, 2018-2021

Led the design of database and backend architecture for Consentio.
 Database optimization, Go, Elastic, Kubernetes, code quality, Typescript, documentation…
 Mentoring and improving practices.

Guy Carpenter — SVP, Head of Software, CAT Risk — Madrid, 2018
Guy Carpenter — VP, Head of Software, CAT Risk — Dublin, Madrid, 2015–2018

Led the design and development of a series of pioneering applications for catastrophe model evaluation, delivered over the company intranet. These applications produced sophisticated engineering analysis, including full reports with data visualization tools like D3, and a PostGIS backend enabling fast computation of earthquake intensity areas.
Managed three developers. Mentoring, best practices, agile tools. Engineering data visualization, web, GIS. Go, D3, React, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, DevOps, etc.

Amazon.com — Software Development Engineer — Luxembourg , 2010–2014

Led design and implementation of internal applications and commerce infrastructure that enabled effective cross-country product listing. Used Java, SQL, AWS technologies (RDS, S3, SWF).

Microsoft — Software Development Engineer 2 — Redmond WA, 2008–2010

Worked on the presentation layer of the bing.com search engine. Led localization, creation of library of reusable UI components. Agile development, C++, CSS.

Bear Stearns — Vice President, Software Developer — New York, 2005–2008

Built hedge fund surveillance platform. Optimized database performance. Developed GIS tooling. Built web-based cluster management tool.
Tools: C, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL.

Nortel Networks — Support Engineer, Voice over IP — Madrid, 2000–2002

Second level technical support for Voice over IP across Europe.
 Wrote a network verification tool, in Common Lisp, which was used in production.

EDUCATION

• University of Washington — Seattle, WA (2009–2010)
  Certificate program in Basic Medical Sciences.
• Columbia University — New York, NY (2003–2004)
  MS. Computer Science; concentration in Computer Vision.
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid — Madrid, Spain (1993–2000)
  BS., MS. Electrical Engineering (E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicaciones).

Also, graduate-level study in pure Mathematics, 2019-2020 (unfinished).

AWARDS

La Caixa full-tuition fellowship, October 2002, for graduate education in the US. Awarded each year to 50 outstanding students across Spain.

OTHER

• Languages: Spanish, English, intermediate French
• Widely traveled
• Lover of movies and mathematics