Vasco Pinho
Head Of Platform Engineering
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolVasco Pinho is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building and scaling platform, reliability and developer-experience teams across startups and growth-stage companies. Currently Head of Platform Engineering in Amsterdam, he has led major migrations, performance improvements and org scaling efforts—growing internal platform groups to ~30 engineers and cutting build times from over an hour to under 10 minutes. His hands-on background spans SRE, DevOps and cloud infrastructure, including a full Heroku-to-AWS migration and significant contributions to the serverless Python ecosystem (notably testing and deployment improvements to the popular Zappa project). Vasco combines pragmatic technical depth with people-first leadership, routinely rearchitecting systems and team structures to enable faster, safer delivery. A former MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he brings a systems-thinking approach and a taste for elegant, durable solutions—“turtles all the way down” included.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
5,082reputation
1.6mreached
71answers
23questions
kubernetes
top-5%
Github Skills (20)
boto10
python10
testing10
aws-lambda10
aws10
serverless10
kubernetes9
api-gateway9
minikube6
file-upload6
docker6
kubectl6
linux6
amazon-web-services6
django6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Miserlou/Zappa
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Serverless Python
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Vasco contributed significantly to the testing and deployment aspects of the Zappa project. They introduced and implemented placebo tests, allowing for mocking of AWS calls, which improved test coverage and facilitated isolated testing of S3 interactions and IAM role creation. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase to use the class session object within the `fetch_logs` function. They also made changes to use boto3 for file uploads to S3.
api-gatewaypythonpyramidserverless-applicationsdjango
vascop/codechef-py
Sep 2011 - Jan 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 3 years 3 months
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