Derik Evangelista
Principal Software Engineer at Syntasso
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDerik Evangelista is a Principal Software Engineer based in England with 14 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and secure web applications. He has progressed from hands-on development in Scala, Java, TypeScript and Go to engineering leadership roles at Pivotal, VMware and Grafana Labs, and now drives architecture and delivery at Syntasso. His background includes deep work on Cloud Foundry, Concourse, BOSH, Terraform and public clouds (GCP/AWS), and he’s implemented in-browser cryptography for secure messaging products. With a master’s in AI and a history of shipping both platform services and user-facing features, he combines systems-level thinking with practical implementation skills—he also jokes that he’s “pretty good at writing YAML,” which hints at real expertise in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, Masters in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Federal do Paraná
Portuguese, English, French
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Github Skills (168)
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Github contributions (5)
kirederik/backstage-k8s-scaffolder-actions
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
Collection of scaffolder actions for interacting with Kubernetes on Backstage, including apply and delete.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 4 months
backstagebackstage-scaffoldingkuberneteskubernetes-apply
syntasso/kratix-docs
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:50 reviews, 61 PRs, 782 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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