> If you're building a database system, you'll want me in your team for the huge value I can provide <

I am an open-source database user & committer / contributor with 20 years of experience in GTM, Product and Engineering roles.

• I worked at multiple open-source database vendors, including:
  • MySQL at Oracle, Neo4j, OrientDB, ArangoDB, Dgraph Labs, Percona
• I actively contribute improving products & user experience, ensuring technical success and renewals.

Ask me about:

• Databases | Data Platforms | Open Source | Documentation | GTM | Support | Success | Account Management | Operations

• This profile, sleto-it, includes my open-source contributions from September 2017.
• My contributions before September 2017 can be found in the profile santo-it (direct links: 2017, 2016).

The following list is partial. The list of topics I can provide value, when partnering with a database vendors is much wider.

• Please check my LinkedIn profile and my website for more information. Feel free to ping me for a call!

2016 & 2017 - when part of the OrientDB team:

• Designed, developed & documented the "Neo4j to OrientDB Importer" (repository).
  • Examples of databases that have been imported and then made available to the public as demo databases for OrientDB:
    • panama-papers-orientdb
    • reactome-orientdb
• Created the new "Travel Agency" demo database in OrientDB v3, to enhance learning of new users and showcase the capability of the product.
  • Created multiple tests as well as the documentation which included many (graph) query examples.
  • Warnings:
    • Some files were commited by other team members (team effort) but you can see my name , e.g. inside the test files.
    • Things might not be online anymore or some links might be broken today.
• Contributed to / refactored the Documentation.

2017, 2018, 2019 - when part of the ArangoDB team:

• Created and reviewed hundreds of doc-related PRs:
  • arangodb/arangodb repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.
  • arangodb-helper/arangodb repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.
  • arangodb/kube-arangodb repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.
  • SDKs:
    • arangodb/arangojs repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.
    • arangodb/arangodb-java-driver repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.

2019 & 2020 - when part of the Dgraph team:

• Contributed to the documentation:
  • dgraph-io/dgraph repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.

2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and onwards - when part of the Percona team:

• Contributed to the documentation of multiple products, e.g.

  • percona/pmm-doc repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.
  • percona/pbm-docs repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.
  • percona/distmongo-docs repo: list of my PRs.
  • percona/pdmysql-docs repo: list of my PRs.
  • percona/psmdb-docs repo: list of my PRs.
  • percona/everest-doc repo: list of my PRs.
  • percona/percona-valkey-doc repo: all my commits.
  • percona/ivee-docs repo: list of my PRs.
  • percona/docs-home repo: list of my PRs.

• Product PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management):

  • Contributed to the improvement of the dashboards and of the alerts (examples).

2024 and onwards - external contributions to SurrealDB:

• Contributed to the documentation:
  • surrealdb/docs.surrealdb.com repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.

2024 and onwards - external contributions to InfluxData:

• Contributed to the documentation:
  • influxdata/docs-v2 repo: list of my PRs, and all my commits.

Please connect and say hi!

• I am sleto on LinkedIn, and this is my website.

You can hire me as a contractor, for instance via Upwork (profile).

• My recommendations are on (LinkedIn). Please ask me for additional references!

Some roles I can be considered for:

• Technical Writer / Documentation Engineer / Developer Relations Engineer
• Senior Customer Success Manager / Senior Technical Account Manager
• Senior Technical Success Specialist / GTM Specialist
• Senior Support Engineer / Senior Support Escalation Specialist / Senior Pre-Sales Engineer
• Project Manager / Product Manager

Since I can wear different hats, you can also consider me simply like a "Open-Source Database Contributor & Advisor".

> Available for hire <