Vito Botta
Lead Platform Architect
Espoo, Mainland Finland
Summary
🤩
RockstarVito Botta is a Lead Platform Architect based in Espoo, Finland, with three decades in tech and 11 years of focused experience building secure, high-performance web platforms. He currently shapes Brella’s architecture and infrastructure—owning a Ruby on Rails backend and Kubernetes deployments—while mentoring teams to ship maintainable, cost-aware systems. Vito is also the creator of hetzner-k3s, an open-source CLI with 3,200+ GitHub stars that makes production-ready Kubernetes on Hetzner Cloud approachable. As a founder he builds SprintPulse, an AI-powered retrospective tool designed to turn team feedback into actionable improvements, and offers free access to a handful of teams in exchange for product feedback. He supplements his platform work with ethical hacking and bug bounty activity, bringing a pragmatic security lens to everything he builds. Comfortable balancing hands-on engineering, open-source impact, and product thinking, he consults on Kubernetes and Hetzner-focused infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Finnish, Italian
Stackoverflow
395reputation
14kreached
0answers
4questions
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
hetzner-cloud10
k3s10
crystal-lang10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
dockers9
docker9
shell8
sh8
aac8
script8
infrastructure-as-code8
scripting8
nginx6
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
vitobotta/hetzner-k3s
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
The easiest and fastest way to create and manage Kubernetes clusters in Hetzner Cloud using the lightweight distribution k3s by Rancher.
Role in this project:
DevOps & Cloud Engineer
DevOps & Cloud EngineerContributions:29 releases, 15 reviews, 450 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Vito primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the `hetzner-k3s` project. They improved the SSH connection handling, incorporated retry mechanisms for network timeouts, and addressed issues related to host key verification. Furthermore, the user added features like handling SSH keys and load balancers, ensuring better integration with the Hetzner Cloud environment, and refactored existing code to improve the user experience.
clustersclicrystal-langhetznercrystal
vitobotta/homebrew-tap
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:28 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.