Miguel Goncalves

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Engineering Manager at UBS · Bazel, Backstage

UBS
Lisbon, Portugal · WET (UTC+0)
9+ years experience
University of Amsterdam
English, Portuguese
Co-founder
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Overview

I lead platform engineering at UBS in Lisbon. Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 726ms to 55ms. Led the migration of 60 services to service mesh. Before that: Deloitte and Microsoft. Most at home with CI/CD and Go. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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  • People who want to build this with me
  • Second opinions on CI/CD decisions
  • Working sessions on Go
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

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Skills
service meshKubernetesCI/CDBackstageBazelGo
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a design-minded co-founder: home healthcare staffing in India

The idea
Home healthcare staffing in India
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
9 years in platform engineering
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Lisbon or remote

I bring 14 years of platform engineering (currently UBS). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Full-time from day one.

Lisbon, Portugalbackstageservice meshkubernetes
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2026 - Present
    UBS · 5 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Led the migration of 38 services to Kubernetes.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 19 a week to 3.
  2. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jan 2025 - May 2026
    Deloitte · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 18 a week to 1.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
    Microsoft · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Moved 77% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 28 a week to 4.
  4. Senior Platform Engineer
    Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
    Supercell · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 15 minutes to under 4.
  5. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
    Telefónica · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. University of Amsterdam
    BSc, Information Technology
    2008 - 2011

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