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Mariano Gappa

Mariano Gappa

Mariano is a software engineer working at CloudQuery with 15 years of experience in the industry. His speciality is in improving performance and his work has reduced sync times and significantly improved CloudQuery's performance.

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Mariano is part of CloudQuery's software development team. During 15 years working in software development, Mariano has worked in a wide variety of languages and platforms. His greatest experience lies in Python, Go, MySQL, PHP, Kubernetes and AWS but his varied career has shown that he can turn his hand to anything.

Prior to joining CloudQuery, Mariano worked in a number of software engineering roles at various businesses. In each role, he contributed to significant efficiency gains and performance improvements for the products he worked on, delivering 25x performance improvements in some cases.

Hailing from Argentina, Mariano has worked in software engineering roles for businesses in his home country, New Zealand and the U.K.

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Scale GitHub Issues semantic search with CloudQuery, BigQuery, and Vertex AI

Sync GitHub issues to BigQuery with CloudQuery, generate Vertex AI embeddings via BigQuery remote models, and power fast, fully managed semantic search.

Mariano Gappa

October 9, 2025

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Improve GitHub Issues search effortlessly with CloudQuery, pgvector and OpenAI

Turn GitHub issues into instant insights by syncing with CloudQuery, generating pgvector embeddings in PostgreSQL, and querying with natural language.

Mariano Gappa

October 1, 2025

Developers

Engineering

We Built an MCP Server and These Are the Gotchas Nobody Talks About

Practical lessons from building an MCP server to bridge LLMs with cloud infrastructure databases, covering tool descriptions, naming, and context limits.

Mariano Gappa

Joe Karlsson

July 29, 2025

Developers

AI

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How we made our IDEs data-aware with a Go MCP Server

How we built a Go-based MCP server to make AI Assistants AI data-aware, bridging code and database, which ended up transforming the way we code.

Mariano Gappa

Joe Karlsson

July 29, 2025

Developers

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How to Work with CloudQuery Syncs within Databricks

Learn how to set up CloudQuery syncs within Databricks, including data transformation and visualization of your cloud asset inventory.

Mariano Gappa

July 24, 2025

Developers

Engineering

How We Handle Billion-Row ClickHouse Inserts With UUID Range Bucketing

How CloudQuery solved ClickHouse memory explosion when processing billions of rows of cloud data using an Insert-Splitter with UUID-range bucketing.

Mariano Gappa

Joe Karlsson

May 1, 2025

Developers

Engineering

Six Months with ClickHouse at CloudQuery (The Good, The Bad, and the Unexpected)

After six months using ClickHouse as CloudQuery’s backend: what we learned about performance, JOIN limits, sorting keys, materialized views, and benchmarks.

Herman Schaaf

Joe Karlsson

Mariano Gappa

April 8, 2025

Developers

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Introducing The JSON Flattener Transformer Integration

CloudQuery’s JSON Flattener Transformer Integration enables you to flatten nested JSON source data into separate, queryable columns for easier analysis.

Mariano Gappa

October 28, 2024

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