Pedro Pombeiro
Staff Backend Engineer - CI Platform Fleet Visibility (Rails)
Lausanne Metropolitan Area Switzerland
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Top SchoolPedro Pombeiro is a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab with 11+ years building distributed, cross-platform systems and a deep background in CI/CD, runner infrastructure, and fleet visibility using Ruby on Rails, Go, Postgres and ClickHouse. He excels at end-to-end engineering—designing maintainable OO systems, improving developer workflows, and driving platform decomposition and anti-abuse efforts across multi-team, multi-cloud environments. A seasoned remote worker and team leader, he has led open-source projects and contributors (notably integrating Nimbus keystore into status-go) and helped reduce onboarding and build complexity with reproducible build tooling. Pedro blends strong engineering craft with a passion for usability, automation, and team performance, and outside work he channels the same discipline into music and endurance sports.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Intensive Course German, Intensive Course German at Royal School Of LanguagesMastering COM Development Using MS Visual C++ MOC-Nr.: 1012, Mastering COM Development Using MS Visual C++ MOC-Nr.: 1012 at ProdactaGerman Studies, German Studies at Liebherr Internal TrainingComputer Science, Computer Science at Universidade do PortoSeminar Advanced Leadership, Seminar Advanced Leadership at Management School St. Gallen
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Github Skills (31)
podman10
network-configuration10
docker10
ubi10
scripting10
dockers10
iptables10
automation10
script10
go10
dns10
nimbus10
ethereum10
blockchain10
golang10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-go
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
The Status module that consumes go-ethereum
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 170 PRs, 714 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily focused on integrating Nimbus keystore functionality within the `status-go` project, specifically for account management. Their commits involved adapting existing geth-based keystore implementations and integrating the Nimbus keystore, including modifications to account and API files. Further contributions involved support for Nimbus node integration and adjustments to the subscription service, indicating a focus on core blockchain functionality within the project.
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unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
A collection of enhancements for UnifiOS based devices
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits, 13 PRs, 46 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Pedro primarily focused on enhancing and configuring the UnifiOS utilities, with a strong emphasis on containerization and networking. Their contributions involved modifying scripts for DNS configurations, creating and updating Dockerfiles for applications like Pi-hole, and implementing logging features within iptables rules. They also added various examples to the `on_boot.d` directory, showcasing their understanding of system-level scripting and the UnifiOS environment. The user demonstrated an understanding of automation and system administration.
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