Lucas Caparelli
Platform Software Engineer IV
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolLucas Caparelli is a Platform Software Engineer IV with nine years of experience building cloud-native, production-ready developer platforms from São Paulo. At Gympass he architects and operates Kubernetes-focused runtime products—extending APIs, managing cluster lifecycles, and hardening distributed services like secrets and messaging at global scale. A former Red Hat support engineer, he pairs deep systems knowledge (systemd, BIND, postfix) with a product-minded approach to platform reliability and developer self-service. Active in open source, he has contributed backend changes to the prominent Kubernetes gateway-api project, improving API conformance and adding nuanced conditions and codegen checks. Trained at Universidade de São Paulo, he brings both academic rigor and a track record of turning complex cloud infrastructure requirements into practical, documented solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of São Paulo
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (8)
kubernetes10
go10
gateway10
api-gateway10
kubernetes-pods10
api-design9
api-documentation9
yaml8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Lucas's contributions primarily involve modifying the `gateway-api` repository's source code to improve its conformance to the Kubernetes API. They focused on adjusting documentation and code related to conformance levels and API specifications, particularly around implementation-specific features and the use of regular expressions. Furthermore, the user introduced and refined conditions like 'Programmed' within the Gateway API and associated resources, and implemented version checks in a codegen script.
k8s-sig-networkload-balancingingresskubernetesprometheus
gympass/cdn-origin-controller
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:13 releases, 52 reviews, 197 commits in 1 year 3 months
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