Gualter Baptista
Chief Advisor On Platform Strategy And Enablement
Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolGualter Baptista is a platform strategist and enablement lead with over 25 years of experience in Linux and FLOSS, currently advising Deutsche Bahn on platform strategy after leading their Container Services as Product Owner. He blends rigorous academic training—a PhD in ecological economics and a background in environmental engineering—with hands-on DevOps, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and cloud platform delivery. Passionate about sustainability and community-driven technology, he consistently frames platform work through systems thinking and ecological impacts. An advocate for rail as sustainable transport, he pairs technical leadership with practical policy and outreach experience from international projects and NGOs. His uncommon mix of ecological economics scholarship and deep platform engineering experience makes him a compelling bridge between technology, communities, and sustainability.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecological Economics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecological Economics at Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaPh. D., Ecological Economics, Political Ecology, Environmental History, Environmental Sciences, Ph. D., Ecological Economics, Political Ecology, Environmental History, Environmental Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa
English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese
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Github Skills (115)
cloud-computing10
infrastructure10
serverless10
cloud-native10
multicloud10
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
infrastructure-as-code10
markdown9
rel9
ansible9
realtime9
php-fpm9
python9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
gandhiano/technology-degrowth
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years 7 months
lensesdegrowth
gandhiano/edgeryders-commons
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
commonscustomizedinstallationdrupalacquia
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