mpalu.io

Platform Engineer Gothenburg, Sweden

Matheus Palu

I design and operate the infrastructure engineers build on — cloud platforms, Kubernetes, delivery pipelines, and the tooling that keeps them reliable.

Previously at Volvo Cars, Trimble, Insoner.

01 · About

Platforms that reduce friction for product teams — without hiding what's underneath.

I work on the infrastructure product teams build on — Kubernetes clusters, cloud platforms, delivery pipelines, and the tooling around them. My background spans DevOps, Platform Engineering, and a stretch as an Engineering Manager, with experience at both product companies and consultancies.

Comfortable going deep on cluster internals, cost and capacity, or pairing with product engineers on delivery workflows. I prefer small, durable solutions over sprawling ones.

02 · Work

What I work on

/01

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS, GCP, Azure, and bare-metal/VPS. Terraform-driven, with an eye on cost and blast radius.

/02

Kubernetes & Runtime

Cluster design, upgrades, workload onboarding, security baselines, and day-two operations.

/03

Delivery & GitOps

CI/CD with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins. GitOps with Argo CD and Flux.

/04

Internal Platforms

Self-service paths for product teams, paved roads, and developer-facing APIs and CLIs.

/05

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. Metrics and traces that actually get used on-call.

/06

Technical Leadership

Team lead and engineering manager experience. Hiring, mentoring, and setting technical direction.

03 · Stack

Stack

Tools and technologies I work with regularly.

Kubernetes

  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Argo CD
  • Flux
  • Talos Linux

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Hetzner
  • Cloudflare
  • Terraform

Delivery

  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • GitOps
  • Docker

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Datadog

Scripting

  • Bash
  • Python
  • Linux
04 · Experience

Experience

  1. — Present
    Platform Engineer
    Definitive Healthcare
  2. —
    Platform Engineer
    Fabled
  3. —
    Engineering Manager
    Insoner
  4. —
    Platform Engineer
    Insoner
  5. —
    Platform Engineer
    Volvo Cars
  6. —
    DevOps Engineer
    Brasil Paralelo
  7. —
    DevOps Engineer
    Trimble Inc.
  8. —
    Systems Administrator
    Inside Sistemas
  9. —
    Infrastructure Analyst
    ITVALE

Earlier roles in tech support and instruction since 2007.

05 · Contact

Let's talk about your platform.

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