Pedro Da Costa
Principal Solutions Architect at The Unit
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Da Costa is a Principal Solutions Architect based in Edinburgh with over a decade of hands-on experience translating complex business needs into cloud-native microservices, primarily on AWS and Kubernetes. He evolved from a strong Java consulting background into senior architecture roles across industries including gaming, IT management, and enterprise software at companies like William Hill, SolarWinds and N‑able. Known for bridging deep technical design with pragmatic delivery, he focuses on resilient, scalable service architectures and operational excellence. His career path reflects both long-term client-facing consulting and internal leadership, bringing a systems-thinking approach informed by an aerospace engineering education. An experienced mentor and cross-functional collaborator, he excels at turning legacy Java estates into modern cloud platforms while keeping teams aligned on measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Aerospace, Engineer Aerospace at Instituto Superior Técnico
Spanish, Italian, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (62)
caching10
spring10
java10
spring-boot10
low-latency9
distributed-computing9
proxy9
hazelcast9
solarwinds9
stream-processing9
minikube8
docker8
aws-app-mesh8
scalability8
authorization8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
costap/tunnelv2
Nov 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
costap/tunnel
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 56 commits, 40 pushes in 13 days
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