luisgonc.

Platform Engineer ยท Porto, Portugal

Hey, I'm Luis.

I am into computers, restoring old rust buckets and 3d printing. If you share one of these passions, we will most definitely become good friends ๐Ÿ˜‰

$ whoamiโ†’platform engineer from ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น

Track record

Seven years keeping production alive.

Platform Engineer specializing in Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS, with 7+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale. Strong focus on platform reliability, automation, and cost-efficient infrastructure, with experience spanning SRE, technical leadership, and developer enablement.

7+Years in production
$1.2MCloud spend cut / year
150+Projects on golden CI/CD
PCI-DSSCompliant platforms migrated

07 builds ยท garage & cloud

Projects.

Sucatisse

classic carslive

A classic car restoration club I founded in Porto. Most of it happens in the garage: I'm restoring my second car, we rebuilt an engine, and we're building a Micra race car. On the web, we turn the grainy 1990s factory manuals (often the only documentation left for these cars) into searchable, mobile-friendly interactive manuals you can read under the car. Six are online so far across Nissan, Mazda and Subaru, plus a few free in-house tools like a wheel-fitment calculator.

Aurora

kuberneteslive

A live 3D view of a Kubernetes cluster, built as something to look at rather than a tool to use. Hue is the namespace, size is memory, tumble is CPU, and how far a pod drifts from its node is how close it is to its own limit. Every lifecycle event gets its own animation: pods bloom when scheduled, strobe red when they crashloop, and shove their neighbours out of the way when they get OOM killed. It reads whatever cluster your kubeconfig points at.

Banger Link

music botlive

A Telegram bot that converts music links between Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube. Also my personal vibe-coding playground. Every 2-3 years I rewrite it from scratch with whatever LLM tooling exists at the time.

CETsize

marine biologylive

A client-side web application for whale measurement, designed to assist marine biologists. It detects EXIF data from drone images to enable accurate sizing without uploading photos to a server.

DIY Power Station

off-grid powerlive

We built a 280Ah 12V power station able to withstand 1500W. Enabling us to power two JBL Partybox speakers, a laptop, DJ mixer and lights, anywhere with an expected runtime of 10 hours of non-stop djing.

Forja

3D printingbuilding

Something new for 3D printing. You will probably like it. Still loading though...

Wenu

restaurantsbuilding

Restaurant software, made simple. Still cooking.

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