Gustavo Carvalho
Cofundador at External Secrets Inc
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGustavo Carvalho is a co-founder and cloud-native engineer with eight years of experience building platform and DevOps solutions from São Paulo. He has led engineering teams at Container Solutions, delivered IDPs, runtime and supply-chain security, and recently cofounded External Secrets Inc, bringing practical experience integrating secrets management into Kubernetes. Gustavo is an active contributor to the popular External Secrets open-source project, where he improved the Azure Key Vault provider, fixed cluster-scope access and ServiceAccountRef bugs, and tightened deletion and key management behaviors. His background spans startups and telecoms—delivering IoT products, satellite operations, and optical networking—giving him a rare mix of systems engineering and product sensibility. He excels at translating business needs into secure, automated cloud platforms and often reduces operational friction by codifying best practices. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who prefers shipping resilient, auditable infrastructure over theoretical designs.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engenheiro Eletricista Telecommunications Engineering, Engenheiro Eletricista Telecommunications Engineering at Universidade de Brasília
English, French
Github Skills (10)
secret-management10
secrets-manager10
debug10
kubernetes10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
azure-keyvault10
cicd9
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
external-secrets/external-secrets
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service like AWS Secrets Manager and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:537 reviews, 273 commits, 401 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Gustavo primarily focused on enhancing the Azure Key Vault (AzureKV) provider within the external-secrets project. Their work included fixing access issues related to ClusterScope, and also improving the implementation of deletion policies and key management. Furthermore, the user addressed code duplication and linting issues while also fixing a critical bug related to ServiceAccountRefs.
external-secretspartyexternal-secrets-operatorsecret-managementsecrets-manager
external-secrets/kes-to-eso
Oct 2021 - Aug 2022
tool to help migrating from kes to eso
Contributions:39 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 10 months
golangeso
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