Roberto Drebes
Solutions Architect at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRoberto Drebes is a Solutions Architect based in Zurich with 11 years of hands-on experience designing resilient networked systems, embedded software, and cloud infrastructure. At Google he has progressed from Technical Solutions Engineer to helping Google optimize its own cloud usage, advising on complex networking and data security for strategic customers. He combines deep low-level expertise in device drivers and hardware–software interfaces with practical cloud automation skills, contributing notable patches and tests to high-profile Terraform projects and the Google Cloud Terraform provider. His background spans telecom-grade communication systems, high-frequency trading platforms, and large-scale data center automation, reflecting an unusual blend of real-time embedded engineering and modern infrastructure-as-code. Fluent in both research-level dependable systems from a D.Eng. and pragmatic production work, he excels at turning tricky protocol and operational challenges into verifiable, deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of TokyoM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, German
Github Skills (30)
google-cloud-platform10
testing10
cloud-infrastructure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
gcp10
terraformer10
infrastructure10
go10
openstack10
google-cloud10
aac10
infrastructure-as-code10
pubsub10
envoyproxy9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
Nov 2018 - Nov 2021
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 131 commits, 60 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Roberto primarily contributed to the Terraform configuration files for Google Cloud Platform (GCP), focusing on adding support for new GCP resources and features. They implemented code generation for resources, including DNS and Pub/Sub, demonstrating expertise in automating infrastructure as code. Furthermore, the user made contributions to support logging, CMEK/KMS, and geo-restrictions in the platform. Their work involved modifying templates and tests, which resulted in extending the functionality of the Terraform provider for GCP.
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GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-foundation-fabric
May 2020 - Jan 2023
End-to-end modular samples and landing zones toolkit for Terraform on GCP.
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 27 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Roberto primarily focuses on configuring and maintaining cloud infrastructure using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Terraform. Their commits involve modifying configurations for services like Envoy and Nginx within the Google Cloud environment. They've worked on setting up Traffic Director configurations and implemented an Nginx TLS module, demonstrating a focus on containerization and service mesh technologies. The user is also making improvements to test infrastructure.
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