✨ Series: Getting to know the wonderful Continuous Delivery Community
Carlos Tadeu Panato Junior
Location: Berlin, Germany, but originally from Brazil
Who are you?
I am Carlos, a person who is always trying to help others in any way. I am also a husband and father. Working in IT for more than 20 years now, I have worked in most areas, including development, testing, support, process, project management, and people management. I found my spot in open source, infrastructure, release, and automation.
What are your hobbies?
I am a barista and bartender. I like to prepare a lovely flat white or a simple espresso and a good negroni or an old-fashioned or whatever my guests want to drink.
One of my hobbies is also contributing to any open source projects :).
What did you want to be when you were a kid?
My dream was to be Indiana Jones and find old and forgotten ancient artifacts.
What led you to a career in tech?
I did Engineering Mechanics/Electronics/Electric, but when I was looking for an internship, I never got a spot in my area. I always got a position in a software house or a college project to build some software.
When I graduated, I searched for software engineer jobs and never left. 🙂 But I was also an electronics teacher.
Do you remember your first open source contribution?
It was for some JavaScript testing framework.
How did you get involved in the Continuous Delivery Foundation?
I am passionate about CI/CD and have always been the focal point for solving issues and building pipelines.
When I learned about CD Foundation, I reached out to ask how I could help. I am not a speaker or a person who writes blogs; instead, I like to mentor people who want to develop CI/CD skills and use them in their jobs.
What is your favorite thing/project/tech to work on?
All the projects that need help to keep up have a good CI in place, the best security practices, and a good and readable release pipeline.
Tell us about the thing you’re most proud of and why?
When we moved the K8s release bash scripts to use Go, we were able to test the steps with unit tests and had no big surprises when running a release.
Also, when we start using sigstore to sign all the k8s images.
What is the best connection you’ve made through open source?
Oh, that is hard because I would like to name all the people that I met and who became my friends and close friends, but I will name a few: Adolfo Puerco, Ricardo Katz, James Strong, and others (sorry if I did not name you, but you know and is in my heart, you know).
What is your #1 top tip for getting involved in the community?
Find a project or community you like and/or are interested in learning. Then check their documentation and issues, see if they meet regularly or have a Slack (or other communication service in place) and join, introduce yourself and ask questions, see where you can help and the most important have fun.
What’s your favorite open source conference?
For me, FOSDEM is the best conference. It is free and organized by people from the community for the community.
Where can we find you?
Thanks for reading and getting to know a bit more about me, lets talk if you want to learn more. Find me on Twitter or any of the following slacks:
More about Carlos
Carlos was elected to be on the Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and was on the Program Committee for the Continuous Delivery Mini Summit, September 19 in Vienna, Austria.
