My name is Guido Iaquinti and I define myself as a curious human, always eager to learn new things.
Professional wise, I'm an engineer with an academic background and experience in high volume/high availability Internet architectures. I'm a technology enthusiast excited about open source software. My passion is to develop, scale, and automate complex systems.
- 🇮🇹 Italian currently based in Rotterdam (Netherlands). Previously lived and worked in Barcelona (Spain), Dublin (Ireland), Berlin (Germany), and Auckland (New Zealand).
- 👨💻 My experience spans early-stage startups to multi-billion dollar companies.
- 🚀 In 2022, I co-founded SafetyClerk to help modernize the construction industry through data. We’ve enabled hundreds of companies to move from reactive operations to proactive, data-driven decision-making, boosting efficiency and increasing visibility across their work.
- 🏔️ In 2019, I summited Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m / 19,341 ft above sea level) via the Lemosho Route.
- 🥾 In 2018, I completed a solo hiking trip, starting in France and arriving at the end of Spain covering about 730 km / 450 miles in around 20 days.
- ⛵ Sailor, former member of the national Italian sailing team and a certified sailing instructor. In 2018, I crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a 10 m / 34 ft sailboat.
- 💪 I thrive in challenging environments and enjoy stepping outside my comfort zone.
- 💡 Always learning, across both technical and non-technical domains.
2020
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Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess (slack.engineering blogpost)
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Codename VIFL - How to Migrate MySQL Database Clusters to Vitess (KubeCon 2020 - virtual conference) (website, slides, video)
2019
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Scaling resilient systems - A journey into Slack's database service (KubeCon 2019 - San Diego, USA) (website, slides, video)
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Strength in Numbers - Slack’s Database Architecture (PerconaLive Europe 2019 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands) (website, slides)
2018
- Designing and Launching the Next-Generation Database System @ Slack - From Whiteboard to Production (PerconaLive 2018 - Santa Clara, USA) (website, slides)
2017
- Distributed Teams - Scaling Operations Around the World (DevOpsDays 2017 - Tel Aviv, Israel) (website, slides, video)
