João Cunha
Senior Backend Engineer, Distribution Deploy at GitLab
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoão Cunha is a Senior Backend Engineer with 11 years of experience building highly scalable microservices and production systems, currently working on Distribution:Deploy at GitLab in Berlin. He has a strong Ruby/Rails background plus practical DevOps skills—Ansible, Terraform, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes—and has saved over $500k through engineering optimizations. At GitLab he contributed notable backend and DevOps improvements to the widely used gitlabhq project, including Kubernetes-related refactors, update endpoints and uninstall flows with tests. Previously he led backend architecture and CI/CD at Advertile Mobile, operating services that hit ~20k req/min and running ELK/EFK logging and monitoring stacks. A long-time partner in a small consultancy, he combines product-facing problem solving with deep technical craft across languages and stacks. He often contributes via GitLab and is comfortable navigating both technical and business constraints to deliver measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Software Development, Software Development at Code SchoolPontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Github Skills (16)
ruby-rails10
gitlab10
kubernetes10
rails10
backend10
helm10
devops10
back-end-development10
kubernetes-pods10
ruby10
rspec9
rest-api8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:26 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:João primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the GitLab CE codebase related to Kubernetes cluster applications. They renamed scopes, refactored services, and introduced new update endpoints. Contributions include improvements to application update functionality, including the creation of update services, and the modification of existing application models. Additionally, the user implemented the uninstall feature for several applications and added tests for these functionalities.
gitlab-apinew-issuestrackerrailsgitea
Alexand/devolute-challenge
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Devolute challenge
Contributions:5 PRs, 16 pushes, 6 branches in 3 days
javascriptreactnodejstypescript
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