Goncalo Pereira
Principal Engineer at Kaluza
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGoncalo Pereira is a Principal Engineer based in London with over 15 years of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems across startups and enterprises. He specializes in reducing complexity and building extensible, observable platforms using cloud-native tooling (AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform) and languages from Ruby and .NET Core to Node.js, Scala and Go. A proven first‑hire operator, he has driven dramatic performance and reliability gains—tripling warehouse throughput for a major retailer and scaling media services to thousands of requests per second. He champions pragmatic DevOps, TDD/BDD and monitoring practices, and has contributed to open-source DevOps tooling such as the consul cookbook improvements. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers, he pairs deep architecture expertise with operational discipline and a background that intriguingly includes running a record label, podcast and coffee shop before focusing full-time on distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, specialisation on Architecture and Distributed Systems, Licentiate degree, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, specialisation on Architecture and Distributed Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico
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Github Skills (16)
chef-client10
automation10
chef-solo10
consul10
automations10
cookbook10
serverspec10
automation-testing10
devops9
testing9
go7
caching6
graphite6
varnish6
kibana6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sous-chefs/consul
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Development repository for the consul cookbook
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Goncalo primarily focused on improving the configuration and testing infrastructure for the `consul` cookbook. Their contributions included updating serverspec tests to work with newer versions, fixing UI tests, and refactoring the service configuration using `init` style for better integration. The user implemented `GOMAXPROCS` settings for improved performance, ensuring correct CPU utilization, and fixing merge issues. This resulted in improved service stability and reliability within the cookbook.
cookbookchef-resourceconsulmanaged-by-terraformchef
goncalopereira/dev_env
Sep 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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