Summary
Erik Bonelo is a Staff DevOps Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure across startups and scaleups, currently leading Infra Platform efforts at Factorial. He combines a strong academic foundation in distributed systems from TU Berlin and Aalto with practical founder experience as Head of IT at BitPhy, where he built a PWA, managed Kubernetes clusters, and implemented CI/CD pipelines. Erik has driven platform and tech-lead responsibilities at Midokura and TravelPerk, focusing on scalability, observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Loki) and optimized database architectures. Comfortable bridging research and production, he contributed to cloud computing research at T‑Labs and has a background in telecom systems and product validation that sharpens his systems-level troubleshooting. Colleagues know him for pairing pragmatic automation with an entrepreneurial mindset and a knack for turning complex distributed problems into reliable platform services.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Programme in ICT Innovation Distributed Systems and Services, Master’s Programme in ICT Innovation Distributed Systems and Services at Aalto University
Erasmus Exchange, Erasmus Exchange at Tampere University of Applied Sciences
Master’s Programme in ICT Innovation Distributed Systems and Services, Master’s Programme in ICT Innovation Distributed Systems and Services at Technische Universität Berlin
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Finnish, German