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@@ -217,4 +217,11 @@ ruettere:
  name: "René Rütter"
  bio: "René is a data engineer at Suva. He lives in Lucerne, Switzerland."
  linkedin: ruettere
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+ avatar: ruettere.jpg
+
+alvarvg:
+  name: "Alvar Viana"
+  bio: "Alvar is a Senior Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat. Passionate about bikes, games and software. He lives in Spain"
+  github: alvarvg
+  linkedin: alvarviana
+  avatar: alvarvg.png
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+---
+layout: post
+title:  Hello Debezium Community!
+date:   2025-02-01 12:00:00 +0100
+tags: [ community, news ]
+author: alvarvg
+---
+
+Hello Debezium Community! 
+
+I am Alvar Viana and exactly one month ago I joined Red Hat and the Debezium team. I am a software engineer with almost 10 years of professional experience.
+In my career, I have always worked for product companies/projects. 
+Started as backend/embedded developer for a company that was acquired ABB.
+A few years later I changed my life, cities, jobs and  roles. Since then, I worked at adidas and Sysdig as a Quality Engineer. 
+As of today, I am happily joining Red Hat and Debezium.  
+
+I've had limited contact with Red Hat, although since I was a child, I have admired the company; since half a year ago, I have been in different selection processes.
+I have previously worked with Debezium to create a PoC to keep two databases synchronized. Unfortunately, that effort never moved beyond a poC, but that experience and knowledge will now be useful.
+
+So, here I am! Willing to learn as much as possible about Kafka, Kafka Connect, multiple databases and, especially, about Debezium. 
+Over time, I hope to be able to do my bit and improve the quality with which we deliver Debezium: increase the quality, improve the process, reduce building and testing time, etc. 
+
+Really nice to meet you and to be able to help. Alvar.
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