Resume
Senior Platform Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer — Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, AWS, GCP and observability
Londrina, Paraná, Brazil · Available for global remote freelance roles · EU citizen with full working rights
Experience
Senior Site Reliability & Platform Engineer · Toptal
Aug 2025 — Sep 2026Londrina, Brazil · Remote, Contractor
- Refactored an internal Python/Flask GitOps platform with Kustomize and GitHub webhooks, cutting aggregate GitHub Actions execution time by approximately one hour per day and enabling granular image updates in multi-container deployments.
- Hardened the platform with repository-level authorization, automatic GitHub OAuth, HMAC-signed webhooks, Firestore caching and ETag-based conditional requests, reducing UI load time to approximately 350 ms.
- Reduced Google Cloud Artifact Registry storage costs by approximately 19% with a Python lifecycle process that enforced 365-day retention while protecting pinned in-use images; Datadog monitoring also identified three production deployments running outdated versions.
- Eliminated approximately 20 minutes of manual validation per development release by implementing automated integration tests for the GitOps platform with Playwright.
- Restored Renovate automation for custom runners and base images after approximately one month of stalled pull-request creation, enabling service repositories to adopt newer base-image versions.
- Reduced Docker runner image size by 76% and attack surface by 84% through distroless containers and Docker Hardened Images.
- Resolved more than 50 Datadog-reported CVEs by rolling out Kubernetes image garbage-collection configuration through Terraform, limiting unused cached images to a maximum age of 24 hours.
- Co-architected the migration of Kafka infrastructure to Terraform, removing approximately 40% of stale resources, retiring legacy release tooling and automating multi-environment deployments with GitHub Actions.
- Decoupled application and infrastructure delivery by moving Kubernetes manifests into dedicated GitOps repositories and implementing Argo CD ApplicationSets for environment-based deployments.
Independent Consultant · Kawasaki Web Soluções
Feb 2020 — PresentLondrina, Brazil · Remote (Global), Self-employed
- Reduced Kubernetes observability infrastructure costs and resource consumption by 20% by centralizing logs, metrics and distributed traces in a dedicated AWS cluster using Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Helm.
- Global workflow standards: refactored and documented multi-repository GitHub CI/CD workflows as reusable self-service templates, reducing developer friction and supporting async collaboration.
- Orchestrated the migration of more than five legacy applications from on-premises infrastructure to AWS and GCP, improving availability and data consistency while reducing infrastructure-related incidents by 30%.
- Deployed sharded Redis clusters on AWS for a real-estate startup, improving website First Contentful Paint (FCP) by 2 seconds.
- Developed automated integration tests with Postman, Newman and MFA for a fintech startup, accelerating the detection and resolution of microservice defects.
- Published test metrics to Prometheus over mTLS and built custom Grafana dashboards, giving fintech engineering teams actionable quality signals.
- Replaced Google Maps with Mapbox in a React.js application for a real-estate startup, reducing geolocation-service costs by approximately 30%.
- Led technical architecture, DevOps and full-stack engineering for an early-stage startup, scaling and mentoring three distributed remote teams through written specifications, asynchronous workflows and structured Agile delivery.
- Introduced semantic versioning and automated GitHub Actions release workflows, reducing manual deployment effort by approximately two developer-days per week.
- Enriched application logs with user metadata and centralized them in AWS Elasticsearch through Filebeat and Logstash, increasing business visibility into website behavior by approximately 50%.
Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer · Arista Networks
Aug 2023 — Aug 2025Dublin, Ireland · Remote (Ireland), Contractor
- Async incident response and DR: engineered zero-touch disaster recovery for the main corporate website with Python and GitHub Actions, cutting execution from hours to under 10 minutes and authoring runbooks for global on-call teams.
- Resolved recurring website downtime through on-call incident response and postmortem root-cause analysis, implementing VCL-based RSS caching and malicious-IP blocklisting that prevented recurrence during the next similar event.
- Infrastructure as Code self-service: designed a scalable Docker-based Jenkins cluster that used Terraform and Ansible to provision cloud VMs dynamically, reducing development environment setup to 15 minutes.
- Security and compliance automation: developed Ansible playbooks and GitHub Actions pipelines for DKIM key renewal across distributed Postfix infrastructure, reducing manual risk and execution time to under 5 minutes.
- Custom tooling: created a Python plugin for Ansible that dynamically redacted sensitive telemetry payloads, strengthening internal data-privacy controls.
- Standardized reusable GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, simplifying pipeline maintenance and deployments across teams.
- Led the automation team’s Jira delivery process, coordinating priorities, technical discussions and task ownership while contributing to a 20% productivity improvement.
- Coordinated technical engagements with AWS, HashiCorp and Fastly, aligning internal requirements with vendor support, training and solution adoption.
DevOps & Data Engineer · Starops
Sep 2021 — Aug 2023San Diego, USA · Remote (Brazil), Contractor
- Implemented Keycloak SSO with OIDC for Vue.js and Node.js applications, standardising social and enterprise authentication across products.
- Migrated 100% of active legacy users to Keycloak through an automated email-based password-reset workflow, completing the identity transition without account loss.
- Built reusable Terraform modules for AWS and GCP environments designed around HIPAA and GDPR requirements, accelerating new-client infrastructure bootstrap by 20%.
- Enabled client microservices to reach Kubernetes production in under two weeks by architecting versioned Terraform environments and automating infrastructure delivery with GitHub Actions and semantic versioning.
- Co-architected an Argo CD GitOps delivery model on Kubernetes, standardizing application release and rollback procedures across stakeholders.
- Rebuilt a POS data pipeline from MongoDB to BigQuery with Apache Beam and Python, processing 20M+ records five times per day in under 20 minutes.
- Architected a Koa.js API with Jest unit tests to encrypt proprietary image data before external transmission, protecting sensitive data and meeting compliance requirements.
Senior Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer · Dextra (CI&T)
Aug 2020 — Sep 2021Curitiba, Brazil · Remote (Brazil), FTE
- Accelerated AWS environment provisioning from weeks to days through reusable Terraform infrastructure and automated GitHub and GitLab CI/CD pipelines supporting HIPAA-regulated healthcare workloads.
- Increased automated test coverage by 45% while developing Node.js API microservices with Mocha and Sinon for international healthcare platforms.
- Collaborated across three global Agile teams on application architecture, DevOps and backend delivery through pair programming and code reviews.
- Mentored engineers across international healthcare projects, supporting technical design, implementation and engineering best practices.
Software Engineer · DSV — Global Transport and Logistics
Jul 2018 — Dec 2019Horsens, Denmark · On-site (Denmark), FTE
- Architected a parallel BI pipeline with .NET Core, Parallel LINQ and SQL Server to ingest European logistics data and support route-optimisation decisions.
- Published an open-source VS Code extension that generates VBA constructors and singleton factories, reaching more than 13,000 Marketplace downloads.
- Unified backend automations in a central React.js dashboard that enabled operations teams to manage Laravel back-office job queues.
- Designed robotic process automations with Kofax Kapow and Selenium, enabling freight forwarders to manage workflows directly at the business level.
- Contributed to an automation program associated with a management-reported 54.7% improvement in process performance and efficiency and 4.8% EBIT growth.
Software Engineer · Let’s Comunicação e Desenvolvimento
Feb 2018 — Jun 2018Londrina, Brazil · Hybrid (Brazil), Part-time
- Delivered front-end, backend and infrastructure work for startup clients using AngularJS, LoopBack, Gulp and Jenkins across DigitalOcean and Linode environments.
- Improved maintainability through reusable AngularJS and LoopBack component modularization across private repositories.
- Standardized application delivery by automating deployments with Gulp and Jenkins across DigitalOcean and Linode infrastructure.
- Collaborated with distributed teams on technical planning, delivery, training and knowledge sharing through Redmine, Slack and remote-first workflows.
Co-founder / Full Stack Developer · RAIS Saúde
Jan 2016 — Jun 2017Londrina, Brazil · Hybrid (Brazil), Partner
- Co-founded a healthcare technology startup and led full-stack application architecture, translating customer requirements and user flows into production software.
- Developed AngularJS and JavaScript frontend apps with Jasmine tests, converting wireframes and UX requirements into reusable interfaces.
- Built backend services with Java and Spring MVC and contributed to architecture, code reviews, pair programming and technical documentation.
- Automated build and deployment workflows with Gulp and Jenkins across IBM Bluemix, AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Frontend Engineer · Ligue Site
Oct 2012 — Jul 2015Cornélio Procópio, Brazil · Hybrid (Brazil), Internship
- Built marketing websites and digital campaigns with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Facebook Ads and Google Analytics while supporting client acquisition and account service.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) · 2014 – 2018
Technical Diploma, Electrotechnics
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR) · 2010 – 2013
Certifications
- Google Cloud Platform Solutions Architect (2024-2027)
- GCP Professional Data Engineer (2023-2025)
Languages
- PortugueseNative
- EnglishFull professional
- DanishElementary
- SpanishLimited working
Skills
Infrastructure & IaC
Platform, IDP & GitOps
Observability
Software, Data & Security
Earlier ventures & awards
- VBA Generators — VS Code Extension2018
Built and published an open-source extension that generates VBA constructors, accessors and singleton factories, reaching 13K+ downloads.
- ELLP Group2014 – 2016
Co-founded a volunteer technology-education group recognised by Mapa Educação in 2015 among Brazil’s 100 leading education projects.
- 2015
1st place — TOTVS Agribusiness Hackathon
Built an Intel Edison IoT irrigation-monitoring solution that won first place among 28 teams.
- 2015
1st place — Urban Mobility Hackathon (ECO.TI)
Built an Arduino UDOO check-in and GPS-tracking system for Londrina's bus network, winning first place.
- 2017 – 2018
Conte um Conto
Co-founded a volunteer web platform that helped low-income students in Brazil develop reading and writing skills.
- Arrhythmia ECG Recognition2017
Developed an ECG arrhythmia classifier using discrete wavelet transforms and machine learning, achieving 97.9% SVM accuracy.
- Computer-theme Question Classification (Thesis)2017
Developed an NLP classifier for computer-science exam questions, achieving 83% precision with Multinomial Naive Bayes.
- 2017
Rotary Club Recognition
Recognized as best Computer Engineering student in Cornélio Procópio, Brazil.