Resume

Senior Site Reliability & Platform Engineer — self-service infrastructure, GitOps and developer experience

Londrina, Paraná, Brazil · Available for global remote roles · EU citizen with full working rights

Experience

  1. Senior Site Reliability & Platform Engineer · Toptal

    Aug 2025 — Present

    Londrina, Brazil · Remote, Contractor

    • Internal Platform Engineering: co-architected the import of legacy Kafka resources into Terraform, replacing an outdated deployment application with automated, version-controlled self-service infrastructure pipelines.
    • Developer Experience (IDP): refactored a mission-critical internal GitOps application to support multiple Kustomize images per deployment and surface near-real-time versions through automated GitHub history polling.
    • Architecture isolation: decoupled application code from Kubernetes configuration and designed ArgoCD ApplicationSets with environment-based promotion, enabling cross-functional teams to deploy autonomously.
  2. IT Consultant / Tech Lead · Kawasaki Web Soluções

    Feb 2020 — Present

    Londrina, Brazil · Remote (Global), Self-employed

    • Unified telemetry systems: built production-ready Grafana/LGTM stacks that aggregate logs, distributed traces and metrics from multiple Kubernetes clusters, reducing AWS costs and simplifying cross-environment operations.
    • Global workflow standards: refactored and documented multi-repository GitHub CI/CD workflows as reusable self-service templates, reducing developer friction and supporting async collaboration.
    • Migrated legacy on-premises systems to AWS and GCP for startup clients, increasing scalability and availability.
    • 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%.
    • E-commerce startup: led technical architecture and mentored three globally distributed remote teams using written specifications and async-first working practices.
    • Introduced semantic versioning and GitHub-based release automation across startup teams, saving developers days of manual deployment work each week.
    • Restructured application logs with richer user metadata and shipped them through Filebeat and Logstash to Elasticsearch on AWS, increasing business-user insights by 50%.
  3. Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer · Arista Networks

    Aug 2023 — Aug 2025

    Dublin, 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.
    • 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.
  4. DevOps & Data Engineer · Starops

    Sep 2021 — Aug 2023

    San Diego, USA · Remote (Brazil), Contractor

    • Implemented Keycloak SSO with OIDC for Vue.js and Node.js applications, standardising social and enterprise authentication across products.
    • Authored secure, reusable and documented Terraform infrastructure modules that gave development clients a standardised self-service path for cloud environment provisioning on AWS and GCP.
    • Led GitOps adoption with ArgoCD on Kubernetes, enabling transparent releases, seamless rollbacks and self-healing deployments for product teams.
    • 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.
  5. Senior Software Engineer II · Dextra

    Jun 2021 — Sep 2021

    Curitiba, Brazil · Remote (Brazil), FTE

    • Contributed to an international DevOps and backend project through architecture design, pair programming, code reviews and engineering mentorship.
  6. Senior Software Engineer I · Dextra

    Aug 2020 — Jun 2021

    Curitiba, Brazil · Remote (Brazil), FTE

    • Introduced automated environment bootstrapping with Terraform and custom GitLab CI pipelines, shortening AWS application-environment turnaround from weeks to days.
    • Developed trait-based Node.js microservices with Mocha and Sinon test coverage, collaborating with three global teams in an Agile delivery environment.
  7. Backend Engineer / IT Specialist · DSV — Global Transport and Logistics

    Jul 2018 — Dec 2019

    Horsens, 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.
    • Improved process efficiency by 54.7% and contributed to 4.8% EBIT growth through automation and operational optimisation.
  8. Full Stack Developer · Let’s Comunicação e Desenvolvimento

    Feb 2018 — Jun 2018

    Londrina, 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.
    • Contributed to three startup products — MedMobi Crônicos, AVP and Farmdome — across application development and deployment automation.
  9. Co-founder / Full Stack Developer · RAIS Saúde

    Jan 2016 — Jun 2017

    Londrina, Brazil · Hybrid (Brazil), Partner

    • Co-founded a health-tech startup and delivered the product end to end, from customer discovery and wireframes to AngularJS and Spring MVC development, automated testing and cloud deployment on AWS and Azure.
  10. Web Designer · Ligue Site Cornélio Procópio

    Oct 2012 — Jul 2015

    Cornélio 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

  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect (2024-2026)
  • GCP Professional Data Engineer (2023-2025)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2022-2024)
  • HIPAA Training (2021)

Languages

  • PortugueseNative
  • EnglishFull professional
  • DanishElementary
  • JapaneseElementary
  • SpanishLimited working

Skills

Infrastructure & IaC

TerraformAnsibleAWSGCPAzureDocker

Platform, IDP & GitOps

KubernetesArgoCDKustomizeHelmJenkinsGitHub ActionsDeveloper self-service

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryDatadogElasticsearchFilebeat / Logstash

Languages & Data

PythonNode.jsTypeScriptRailsApache BeamBigQuerySQLBash

Earlier ventures & awards

  • VBA Generators — VS Code Extension

    Built and published an open-source extension that generates VBA constructors, accessors and singleton factories, reaching 13K+ downloads.

    2018
  • ELLP Group

    Co-founded a volunteer technology-education group recognised by Mapa Educação in 2015 among Brazil’s 100 leading education projects.

    2014 – 2016
  • 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.

    2015
  • Conte um Conto

    Co-founded a volunteer web platform that helped low-income students in Brazil develop reading and writing skills.

    2017 – 2018
  • Arrhythmia ECG Recognition

    Developed an ECG arrhythmia classifier using discrete wavelet transforms and machine learning, achieving 97.9% SVM accuracy.

    2017
  • Computer-theme Question Classification (Thesis)

    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.

    2017