Carlos Peñalver
Senior Staff Platform Engineer Team Lead
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCarlos Peñalver is a Senior Staff Platform Engineer and team lead based in London with 11 years of experience building developer-centric cloud platforms and infrastructure. He combines hands-on engineering (Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, observability) with leadership across product, security, cost optimisation and provider relationships to deliver platforms that improve both customer and developer experience. At Automata he progressed rapidly from Staff to Senior Staff and now leads a high-performing platform team responsible for ArgoCD, Datadog/OTel adoption, multi-cluster EKS/K3s operations and pipeline modernization. He has a pragmatic DevOps background from companies like Nutmeg and Crunch, where he introduced Docker, automated testing and robust secrets and logging practices. An active contributor to k8s-sidecar enhancements, he brings practical open-source experience in Kubernetes integrations and environment-driven deployments. Colleagues describe him as strategic yet hands-on—equally comfortable running provider security reviews and refactoring deployment code to make other engineers more productive.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Degree, Information Technology, Computer Science Degree, Information Technology at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.Grado Superior Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas, Informática, Grado Superior Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas, Informática at IES Ingeniero de la CiervaMeetUp
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
docker10
python10
back-end-development10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
refactoring9
api-design8
persistent-volume-claims6
prometheus-operator6
azure-aks6
prometheus6
prometheus-alertmanager6
kubernetes-helm6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kiwigrid/k8s-sidecar
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
This is a docker container intended to run inside a kubernetes cluster to collect config maps with a specified label and store the included files in a local folder.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and flexibility of the Kubernetes sidecar container. Their contributions involved refactoring code to improve readability and maintainability, particularly related to extracting destination folders. They introduced features for filtering resources based on labels and values, and also integrated Kubernetes API filtering. Furthermore, the user updated the deployment process to incorporate environment variables for configuration.
collectkiwigriddockerkubernetesconfig
carlosjgp/ubuntu-install-scripts
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
Ubuntu installation scripts
Contributions:8 PRs, 32 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 11 months
linuxinstallationbashinstallation-scriptsshell
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