Guido Cota
Head Of Delivery Team Manager at kreuzwerker GmbH
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolGuido Cota is a cloud-native delivery leader and former backend/observability engineer with a PhD in Computer Science, now heading a 10-person AWS consulting team in Berlin. Over a decade he has architected search and analytics platforms with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, led large-scale GitHub and cloud migrations, and migrated legacy systems to microservice and event-driven architectures on GCP and AWS. He combines hands-on implementation (Node.js, Spring Boot, Kafka, Elastic Stack) with team coaching and delivery management, ensuring operational observability for complex Kubernetes environments. His research background in dependability and game-theoretic models for distributed systems informs a disciplined approach to resilient architectures and stakeholder-aligned tradeoffs. Outside of work he brings a curious, creative streak—he lives and codes in Berlin and “eats comics,” a hint at his appetite for narrative-driven problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of MilanDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Italian, English, German
Stackoverflow
2,447reputation
147kreached
160answers
3questions
elasticsearch
top-5%
kibana
top-5%
Github Skills (85)
opensearch10
windows10
bash10
proxy10
datasets10
elasticsearch10
reactor10
streaming10
twitter10
infosec10
cybersecurity10
linux10
docker-compose10
compose10
elasticsearch-plugin10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
glenacota/elastic-training-repo
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
A collection of datasets, docker-compose files, notes, and other stuff related to the Elastic stack.
Contributions:56 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years 11 months
noteselasticdockercomposeelasticsearch-plugin
glenacota/tldr
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
:books: Simplified and community-driven man pages
Contributions:50 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 3 months
man-pagessimplifiedbuildermanualcommunity-driven
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