Cristóvão Cordeiro
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolCristóvão Cordeiro is an engineering manager and cloud-native leader with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently managing the team responsible for Ubuntu’s official container images at Canonical. He brings deep hands-on experience from CERN, where he integrated diverse IaaS backends into the WLCG and developed provisioning, benchmarking and cloud-init tooling for production-scale cloud fleets. Comfortable bridging research and product, he previously led edge-computing software and R&D at SixSq, shaping NuvlaBox for Jetson and Raspberry Pi deployments. A pragmatic, people-focused manager and former fitness instructor, he combines technical depth in containers, CI/CD and monitoring with strong recruitment, agile and communication skills. Based in Switzerland with an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he’s equally at home optimizing build pipelines as he is guiding visitors around CERN.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical and Computers Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computers Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra / University of Coimbra
Portuguese, Spanish, French, English
Github Skills (200)
ubuntu10
schema10
ecosystem10
api10
assemble10
daemon10
rocks10
armv610
buildkit10
truth10
daemons10
golang10
container10
go10
docker10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cjdcordeiro/rockcraft
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 268 pushes in 3 years
nuvlaedge/agent
Apr 2019 - Feb 2022
NuvlaEdge Agent: responsible for the NuvlaEdge activation, telemetry and management
Contributions:22 reviews, 78 PRs, 395 pushes in 2 years 10 months
nuvlaboxpythonactivationagentdocker
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