Before creating Casterix, I (Alain Rodriguez) was working as a consultant for The Last Pickle and Datastax where I contributed in many ways to the Cassandra open-source community. Here are some of the contributions I brought before the creation of Casterix.

BLOG – Here are some blog posts I wrote where you can see my technical and communication skills.

• Data center switch – Add or Remove a DC in Cassandra → http://thelastpickle.com/blog/2019/02/26/data-center-switch.html
• About deletes and tombstones in C* (most viewed – more than the homepage) → http://thelastpickle.com/blog/2016/07/27/about-deletes-and-tombstones.html
• Unmap disks used by Cassandra → https://thelastpickle.com/blog/2016/02/25/removing-a-disk-mapping-from-cassandra.html
• Run commands throughout the C* cluster → http://thelastpickle.com/blog/2016/03/21/running-commands-cluster-wide.html

Conference – Here are a couple of interventions at a Cassandra Summit (200 people in the room each time).

• How Cassandra deletes Data – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lReTEcnzl7Y
• Monitoring Cassandra – Don’t miss a thing! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9AAR4UQzMk

Tools – Here are some tools I contributed significantly to create.

• Medusa – Backups/Restores for Cassandra → https://github.com/thelastpickle/cassandra-medusa
• TLP/Cassandra Monitoring dashboards for Datadog → https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/tlp-cassandra-dashboards/
• Metrics Collector for Apache Cassandra → https://github.com/datastax/metric-collector-for-apache-cassandra

I was also very active in the Apache Cassandra mailing list, helping people.