Hi there 👋
I'm Nacho, founder of Arc - a high-performance columnar analytical database built for engineers who need data freedom.
Building Arc
I'm building Arc at Basekick Labs — a columnar analytical database for product analytics, observability, AI agents, IoT, logs, and data warehousing. Built on DuckDB, Parquet, and Arrow with 18M+ records/sec ingestion and the flexibility to run anywhere (local/MinIO/S3/Azure).
Why Arc exists: After running a database hosting service, I experienced every pain point firsthand — runaway costs forcing customers to delete historical data, vendor lock-in making migrations impossible, proprietary query languages limiting what you can analyze, unstable engines crashing under load. My customers were paying for infrastructure that fought them instead of serving them.
Arc solves this with standard formats (Parquet), standard SQL (DuckDB), and actual data freedom. No proprietary formats. No vendor lock-in. No choosing between cost and retention.
Current traction: 523+ GitHub stars, #194 on DB-Engines (climbed 30 positions in 2 months), 100+ production instances, enterprise pipeline active, Arc Cloud launching March 2026. Latest version 26.03.1 fully implemented in Go.
Tech: Go implementation delivers 10M+ records/sec ingestion, 6M+ rows/sec queries. One endpoint handles any columnar data. DuckDB for analytics. Parquet for storage. Real infrastructure, not another observability layer.
Also building: Liftbridge (lightweight message streaming, Kafka semantics on NATS) and Memtrace (AI agent memory layer).
Background
From Buenos Aires, Argentina. I've been writing cduser.com for 15 years - making high-tech accessible in Spanish and English. InfluxAce and 2020 Founder's Choice Award winner. Former Traefik Ambassador.
Daily stack: Python, Go, React, Docker, Kubernetes (k3s), Terraform, Telegraf, Traefik, Portainer. I've been coding backend/frontend for production for over a year, mostly building tools that solve real problems I face.
Other Projects
- EZCompose: Docker-compose file generator
- Aerial Tours: Uruguay from above via drone
My CDUser YouTube channel still gets hundreds of views monthly despite being mostly inactive.
When I'm Not Building
Running, making BBQ and pizza with friends, flying drones, playing drums. I have two dogs - Olivia (11 years) and Attila (lovable terror). Check this LinkedIn post.
Connect:
- Costa Rica 🇨🇷
- basekick.net
- Discord: discord.gg/nxnWfUxsdm
- Personal Site
- Email: ignacio[at]vandroogenbroeck[dot]net
Vamos River Plate 🇦🇷