Pedro Gonçalves
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Vend
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolPedro Gonçalves is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Oslo with 12 years of experience building and operating large-scale CI/CD and cloud platforms. He has deep hands-on expertise integrating and running deployment toolchains—Spinnaker, Artifactory, Travis—across AWS and Kubernetes, and has driven platform reliability and developer experience at Schibsted/Vend. An active open-source contributor, Pedro has made impactful full-stack and backend contributions to Spinnaker projects (deck, orca, clouddriver, fiat), including auth endpoints, AWS image handling, and orchestration bug fixes and tests. He blends backend systems thinking with frontend polish—evident in UI refinements and role-check features he implemented in Spinnaker’s management UI. Comfortable shifting between coding, operational duties, and interim engineering management, he focuses on making complex deployment flows predictable and auditable. His background in formal engineering education (MSc) and long tenure in platform roles give him a rare mix of implementation depth and product-minded reliability engineering.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Technician, technological studies in computer science, Technician, technological studies in computer science at Centro de Estudos de FátimaBachelors, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Science and Engineering at Universidade da Beira InteriorMasters, Information Systems and Computer Engineering, Masters, Information Systems and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (44)
authorizations10
javascript10
docker10
cloud-computing10
back-end-development10
redis10
apidoc10
groovy10
typescript10
dockers10
java10
javas10
api10
aws10
authorization10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/fiat
Feb 2017 - Feb 2020
Spinnaker auth service
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily focused on enhancing the backend functionality of the Fiat auth service. They added an endpoint to fetch user roles, which involved modifications to the authorization controller and the permissions repository. The user also implemented admin functionality, modifying the permissions repository to incorporate admin roles. Further contributions included bug fixes related to application permissions and account handling.
authenticationspinnakerjwtauthauth-service
spinnaker/orca
Jul 2017 - Dec 2021
Orchestration engine
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the orchestration engine, "orca", by resolving index out of bound exceptions in the Igor module and adding corresponding tests. They made additional improvements to the pipeline template functionality, correcting artifact handling in scenarios with parent pipelines. They also addressed a bug related to honoring proxy system properties in the HTTP client wrapper.
orchestration-engineaerospikeorchestration
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