Matthias Grüter
Engineering Lead For Compute And Networking at Spotify
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorMatthias Grüter is an engineering leader with 14 years of experience and over nine years coaching and managing teams, currently leading Compute and Networking at Spotify in Stockholm. He combines servant leadership with hands-on engineering, enjoying programming and the design, operation, and scaling of distributed systems. Matthias is active in the cloud-native community—organizing DevOpsDays Stockholm and speaking at KubeCon, Jfokus and other conferences—bringing practical insights from production into team practices. He contributes to open-source DevOps tooling, notably improving a Gradle Docker plugin to harden image build, tagging and push workflows for Java projects. Colleagues describe him as an empathetic coach who creates the conditions for engineers to grow while still diving deep into technical challenges.
13 years of coding experience
German, Swedish, English, French
Github Skills (9)
docker10
gradlew10
dockers10
build-automation10
gradle10
cicd9
java9
groovy9
javas9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Transmode/gradle-docker
Nov 2013 - Feb 2016
A Gradle plugin to build Docker images from the build script.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:123 commits, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the Gradle Docker plugin. Their work involved improving the plugin's core functionality, including modifying the build and push processes, supporting Dockerfile commands like VOLUME and ENV, and enhancing image tagging capabilities. They also refactored code, added new features, and updated base images for Java projects.
docker-buildgradlegroovydockerdocker-images
mattgruter/dockerfile-guacamole
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Docker images for Guacamole, the HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 months
remote-desktopdocker-imageguacamoledockerhtml5
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