Alfredo Lavilla is an engineering manager with over 20 years of hands-on and leadership experience and eight years focused on cloud, DevOps and platform engineering. Currently leading Engineering Productivity for VMware Tanzu at Broadcom, he automates the entire software lifecycle to maximize engineers' focus time and helped cut infrastructure provisioning from eight days to under an hour while enabling 120+ monthly production deployments. Previously he led technical architecture at Orange España, delivering cloud-native blueprints that powered dozens of Kubernetes clusters and an API ecosystem serving billions of monthly requests. An active open-source maintainer, he leads the popular Sealed Secrets project used widely in GitOps workflows and has improved its security posture and maintainability. Known as a public speaker and mentor, he blends hands-on infrastructure automation (Terraform, Kops, ArgoCD, Carvel) with cross-functional coaching to scale teams and platform adoption across distributed organizations. Based in Madrid, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, developer productivity and security-driven engineering.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero Técnico Computer Science, Ingeniero Técnico Computer Science at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
Contributions:309 reviews, 22 commits, 239 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alfredo primarily focused on maintaining and improving the project's infrastructure and dependencies. This included bumping dependencies, specifically `prometheus/client_golang` to address security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the user implemented changes related to the site's documentation, including the redirection of the external site to the GitHub repository and updates to Dockerfiles for maintainer contact. The user also enabled full linter support, reflecting a focus on code quality and maintainability.
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