Alberto Lamela
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Galicia, Spain
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Top SchoolAlberto Lamela is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and Kubernetes-based infrastructure, currently driving OpenShift and Kubernetes development at Red Hat. He designs modular, testable, high-performance systems and delivers containerized solutions with strong CI/CD and cloud integration expertise. Alberto has deep open-source credentials across prominent projects like Cluster API, controller-runtime, the Kubernetes autoscaler and OpenShift installer, where he improved controllers, autoscaling logic and GCP Terraform integrations. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps engineering with test automation and infrastructure-as-code, having moved multiple customers from legacy stacks to resilient container platforms. A pragmatic team leader and mentor, he focuses on clean code, design patterns and continuous learning while contributing practical fixes and refactors in critical Kubernetes SIG repos. Based in Galicia, Spain, he pairs enterprise-scale impact with startup agility and a long history of improving reliability and operability in cloud infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Software Engineering, Engineer's degree, Software Engineering at Universidad de A Coruña
Spanish, galego, English
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Github Skills (47)
dependency-management10
autoscaling10
unit-testing10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
controller10
api-design10
testing10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
containerization10
dockers10
terraform10
cicd10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Capgemini/Apollo
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
:rocket: An open-source platform for cloud native applications based on Apache Mesos and Docker.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 329 commits, 227 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Alberto primarily focused on infrastructure as code and automation within the Apollo project. Their contributions included setting up and configuring the Weave network, integrating Consul for service discovery, configuring and deploying services such as Marathon, Cadvisor, and Traefik, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. Furthermore, the user demonstrated expertise in containerization, systemd service management, and Terraform for infrastructure deployment, ensuring the project's operational readiness and scalability.
cloud-nativedockermesos
openshift/machine-api-operator
Jul 2018 - Aug 2020
Machine API operator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 16 reviews, 277 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alberto's contributions primarily revolved around adding vendor dependencies and fixing broken dependencies within the `openshift/machine-api-operator` repository. They were responsible for removing the Bazel build system and integrating changes, potentially updating core components and their build configuration. The changes indicate a focus on maintaining and ensuring the operator's functionality and integration with its underlying dependencies. These actions may be interpreted as refactoring or adjusting the build system in line with the current dependencies.
operator
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