Matteo Ruina
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMatteo Ruina is a Senior Software Engineer and platform specialist with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently focused on Datadog’s Compute Control Plane. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and Istio—operating multi-cluster service meshes before native multi-cluster support—and has contributed to production-grade projects like kops around networking, DNS and IAM improvements. A former sysadmin and two-time co-founder, Matteo blends entrepreneurial pragmatism with platform engineering practices such as GitOps, Kapitan and IaC to make systems safer and teams happier. Based in Barcelona, he emphasizes starting with the "why" and designing for users, while quietly solving cross-stack problems from DNS to gRPC at scale.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 100/110, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 100/110 at University of Ferrara
Italian, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
cnc10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
ias10
dockers9
docker9
infrastructure-as-code9
aws8
service-worker6
ngclass6
angular6
apexcharts6
spring-boot6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kops
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Matteo's contributions primarily focused on infrastructure and configuration management for the Kubernetes cluster. They updated the Lyft CNI, a network plugin, by upgrading its version multiple times. Furthermore, the user modified configuration files to adjust components like CoreDNS. Finally, the user added missing IAM permissions for the cluster to function correctly.
containersgcphelmlinodeinstallation
maruina/dotfiles
Nov 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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