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Eduardo Ubide

I build and run data platforms: the databases, pipelines, and infrastructure that sit underneath them. I’m currently at Centric Software, working remotely

On a typical day, I’m fixing performance issues or adding features to data processes and services: slow jobs, saturated systems, unexplained errors, or runs where the numbers don’t add up. I find the root cause, fix it, and add the checks that keep it from coming back.

Databases have been the constant throughout my career: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis. I started as a junior consultant for large enterprise clients and became a certified Oracle DBA, specializing in performance tuning and RAC. Running the systems behind those databases, first on-premise and later in the cloud, led me into SRE for data services. Today, I work on data platforms end to end, from the storage engine up to the pipelines and analytics built on top of it. The engines change, but the trade-offs stay the same: consistency, latency, and cost.

I trained as an industrial engineer, with a focus on electrical engineering, automation, and control systems. That background shapes how I think about data infrastructure: as a system of stocks, flows, feedback loops, and delays.

I treat everything as code: reviewed, shipped in small changes, and easy to roll back. The alerts I care about are the ones the business feels: throughput, freshness, and error rates. Cloud spend is another signal that matters. SOC 2, GDPR, PCI DSS, and AWS FTR have all gone through my hands.

My approach to problems is simple: reproduce, isolate, fix, and document. Common failures should be handled automatically, documentation should cover the rest, and serious incidents should end with a blameless postmortem. I’ve been on call for enough years to want it that way.

The work I enjoy most is making data services faster, cheaper, and more reliable. I’m always open to new tools and ideas — but as a friend of mine says: don’t believe what you read, prove it.

Work #

Centric Software · Senior Data Platform Engineer 2026–present · remote #

Data platform for a market intelligence product. PostgreSQL ingestion at scale, ETL in Python and PySpark, analytics on ClickHouse.

Audiense · SRE / Platform Engineer 2021–2026 · remote #

Infrastructure for the data pipelines and developer platform of a social intelligence product. Terraform and GitOps on AWS, Kubernetes, reusable CI/CD in GitHub Actions, Prometheus and Grafana. Zero-downtime migrations to managed data services, FinOps, SOC2, and GDPR.

Percona · Database Support Engineer 2020–2021 · remote #

MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB at enterprise clients worldwide. Replication, performance, and cluster failures under tight SLAs.

Alongside Percona and Audiense, 2020–2023: independent database performance consulting for former employers. PostgreSQL and MySQL audits, query optimization, Aurora.

Before that