Denis Afonso
Engineering Manager, GitLab Build
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
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Top SchoolDenis Afonso is an engineering manager with a decade of experience building and leading infrastructure, platform, and reliability teams across fast-moving enterprise and cloud-native environments. He currently leads GitLab Build, after managing platform engineering at McKinsey and cloud engineering organizations at DocuSign, bringing deep operational expertise in CI/CD, automation, and self-service developer platforms. His background spans hands-on delivery from designing GitLab-CI pipelines and Ansible automation to large-scale re-architectures that improved capacity and availability for thousands of servers. Known for bridging customer-facing technical account work with internal platform strategy, he has repeatedly turned support and automation challenges into scalable, self-service operations. Based in Dublin, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Software Engineering with broad experience across AWS, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and legacy modernization—often surfacing pragmatic integrations between new cloud tech and legacy systems. Colleagues rely on him for combining tactical problem-solving with a clear roadmap for platform reliability and developer productivity.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at University of LiverpoolAssociate's degree Computer Networks, Associate's degree Computer Networks at IBTA
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (28)
network-configuration10
python10
django-framework10
django10
automation10
orm10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
ssh10
plugin9
bootstrap9
google-cloud-platform9
pytest9
google-cloud9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Pypular/pypular
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 14 pushes in 9 months
denisra/Algorithmic-Thinking
Feb 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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