Professional Summary

Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience, specialized in reducing developer cognitive load through Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and Golden Paths. CNCF Kubestronaut holding all 5 Kubernetes certifications, with expertise in cloud-native technologies, DevSecOps, and GitOps culture.

Proven track record: 25%+ cloud cost reduction (FinOps), 40%+ MTTR improvement through proactive observability, and 100% auditable infrastructure. Focused on Developer Experience, DORA metrics, and AI-assisted infrastructure automation.

Professional Experience

Platform Engineering Specialist

at Banco SICOOB

2025-06 — Present

  • Architected and implemented Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to accelerate digital financial product delivery with focus on compliance and governance
  • Established cloud-native security standards with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper) and continuous scanning for LGPD and banking regulations compliance
  • Designed multi-cloud resilient infrastructure with Kubernetes and service mesh to support mission-critical transactions with 99.9%+ SLA
  • Implemented advanced FinOps strategies, optimizing cloud costs by 30%+ through intelligent automation and ML-based right-sizing
  • Developed Golden Paths and custom CLI tools to reduce banking application developer onboarding from weeks to days
  • Built end-to-end observability with OpenTelemetry and Prometheus for proactive monitoring of critical APIs and real-time fraud detection
  • Led legacy system migration to cloud-native architecture, ensuring zero downtime and complete auditability through GitOps and ArgoCD
  • Established Platform as a Product culture, collecting Developer Experience metrics and implementing continuous feedback loops for platform evolution

Platform Engineer

at MATERA SYSTEMS

Digital Twin Department

2023-03 — 2025-05

  • Designed and implemented Internal Developer Platform (IDP) integrating CI/CD and resource provisioning, reducing Time-to-Market for new microservices by 60%
  • Standardized Terraform and Crossplane modules for self-service provisioning of EKS clusters and RDS databases
  • Managed Kubernetes fleets with 500+ nodes, optimizing cloud costs (FinOps) by 25% through Spot instances and Karpenter
  • Implemented DevSecOps pipelines with GitHub Actions, integrating SonarQube for static analysis and Snyk for vulnerability scanning
  • Structured observability ecosystem with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, reducing MTTR by 40%
  • Migrated configuration management to ArgoCD (GitOps), ensuring 100% versioned and auditable infrastructure state
  • Leveraged AI tools for infrastructure code generation and test automation, increasing team productivity by 30%

Tech Lead

at ActDigital

Leadership Department

2022-07 — 2023-01

  • Technical leadership, assisting colleagues in tasks, and creating individual development plans
  • Conducted technical interviews for internal client teams
  • Designed multicloud solutions for internal client projects with focus on cost optimization
  • Planned and assessed on-premises to cloud migration strategies with FinOps principles

Tech Lead - Developer Experience

at PicPay

Developer Experience Department

2020-07 — 2022-01

  • Implemented DORA Metrics dashboards (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes), identifying Code Review bottlenecks
  • Revamped developer portal and technical documentation (Docs-as-Code), reducing new hire setup time from 5 days to 4 hours
  • Acted as Developer Advocate bridging product and infrastructure teams to collect feedback and implement custom CLI tools
  • Implemented new continuous deployment strategies with Helm and Harness, improving deployment frequency by 45%
  • Developed CI strategies using Tekton Pipelines with integrated security scanning
  • Created Ansible playbooks for CI/CD strategy migration support
  • Promoted best practices in code governance and API design
  • Developed CLI tools to reduce toil and automate repetitive tasks

Solutions Architect

at SONDA IT

Software Factory Department

2018-01 — 2020-07

  • Infrastructure as code setup with Terraform and CloudFormation for Software Factory solutions
  • Setup of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus, GitLab)
  • Load balancing and scalability setup for CI/CD tools and applications with HAProxy
  • Automating configuration and settings in tools using Apache Groovy
  • Private cloud setup for on-demand resource orchestration
  • Private cloud and app deployment using IaC with Ansible, Fabric, and Docker Compose
  • CI/CD environment configuration across geographically distributed environments
  • CI/CD process definition for application security and quality
  • Automated testing (JUnit, PHPUnit, Karma, Jasmine, Cucumber, Codeception, Behat, Cucumberjs) setup for applications
  • Cloud-based solutions design using AWS and Microsoft Azure

Software Architect

at CTIS Tecnologia

Ministry of Science and Technology

2016-07 — 2017-12

  • Development and maintenance of microservices architecture
  • Deployment of tools to support DevOps philosophy
  • Microservices log analysis and automation triggers with LogStash
  • Microservices monitoring using Prometheus
  • CI/CD pipeline creation for Java(JEE), Angular.js, and PHP projects
  • Docker container setup for microservices orchestration
  • Load balancing and high availability setup with HaProxy
  • Automated deployment of microservices with Ansible

Software Architect

at CTIS Tecnologia

Ministry of Development, Industry, and Trade

2016-04 — 2016-07

  • Development and maintenance of service-oriented architecture (SOA)
  • Architectural implementation using Phalcon PHP, Symfony, and Laravel
  • DAO component implementation for cross-architecture reuse
  • AngularJS architecture development
  • Systems architectural documentation
  • Application deployment documentation
  • Job creation and maintenance in Jenkins
  • Security guidelines for software projects
  • Static analysis policies for quality assessment
  • Software quality monitoring with SonarQube
  • Version management with Sonatype Nexus
  • Application containerization POC creation

Software Architect

at CTIS Tecnologia

Ministry of National Integration

2015-03 — 2015-12

  • SOA development and maintenance
  • Dual backend architectures in Laravel (PHP) and Spring (Java)
  • Frontend architecture with AngularJS
  • AngularJS component scaffolding tool creation
  • Systems architectural documentation
  • Jenkins job creation and maintenance

PHP Developer

at CTIS Tecnologia

Ministry of National Integration

2014-02 — 2015-03

  • Backend development and maintenance with PHP frameworks Zend, Symfony, and Laravel
  • Frontend development and maintenance using HTML, JavaScript (JQuery), and CSS

Education

Postgraduate

Distributed Software Architecture

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais • 2019

Undergraduate

Systems Analysis and Development

Centro Universitário IESB • 2012

Extension Course

Information Technology Support

Centro Universitário IESB • 2013

Extension Course

Systems Analysis and Design

Centro Universitário IESB • 2012

Certifications

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CNCF Kubernetes Certifications

Kubestronaut • Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) • Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) • Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) • Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA) • Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services • 2018-10

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services • 2018-09

LPIC-OT DevOps Tools Engineer

Linux Professional Institute • 2018-09

Zend Certified PHP Engineer

Zend Technologies • 2016-02

LPIC1 - Linux Professional Institute Certified Level 1

Linux Professional Institute • 2012-03

Technical Skills

Platform Engineering

  • Internal Developer Platforms (IDP)
  • Backstage
  • Golden Paths
  • Platform as a Product
  • Self-Service Infrastructure

Cloud & FinOps

  • AWS (EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudFormation, IAM)
  • Azure (AKS, Azure DevOps, ARM Templates)
  • GCP (GKE, Cloud Build, Cloud Functions)
  • Cost Optimization & FinOps
  • Spot Instances & Preemptible VMs
  • Karpenter & Cluster Autoscaler
  • Multi-Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure as Code

  • Terraform (AWS/Azure/GCP Providers)
  • Crossplane (Universal Control Plane)
  • Ansible & Ansible Tower
  • Pulumi (Go/Python/TypeScript)
  • CloudFormation & CDK
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • Terragrunt & Atlantis

Container Orchestration

  • Kubernetes (CKS, CKA, CKAD certified)
  • Helm Charts & Helmfile
  • Kustomize & Overlays
  • Docker & Podman
  • containerd & CRI-O
  • Kind & k3s
  • Kubernetes Operators

CI/CD & GitOps

  • ArgoCD & Flux
  • GitHub Actions & GitLab CI
  • Tekton Pipelines & Triggers
  • Jenkins & Blue Ocean
  • Harness & Spinnaker
  • Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • GitOps Workflows & Patterns

DevSecOps

  • SonarQube & SonarCloud
  • Snyk & Dependabot
  • Trivy & Grype
  • SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA
  • OPA/Gatekeeper & Kyverno
  • Falco Runtime Security
  • Admission Controllers

Observability

  • Prometheus & Alertmanager
  • Grafana & Grafana Loki
  • OpenTelemetry & Jaeger
  • ELK/EFK Stack (Elasticsearch, Fluentd)
  • Datadog & New Relic
  • DORA Metrics & SLI/SLO
  • Distributed Tracing

Developer Experience

  • DORA Metrics (Lead Time, MTTR)
  • Docs-as-Code (MkDocs, Docusaurus)
  • CLI Development (Go, Node.js, Python)
  • Developer Portals & Backstage
  • API Design & REST/GraphQL
  • Technical Documentation
  • Developer Onboarding & Self-Service

Programming Languages

  • Go (Kubernetes Operators, CLI Tools)
  • Python (Automation, FastAPI)
  • Shell Script (Bash, Zsh)
  • JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js, React)
  • Rust (Systems Programming)
  • PHP (Laravel, Symfony)
  • YAML & JSON (Configuration)

Service Mesh & Networking

  • Istio
  • Linkerd
  • Envoy Proxy
  • Network Policies
  • CNI (Calico, Cilium)
  • Load Balancing

Cloud Native Storage

  • CSI Drivers
  • Persistent Volumes
  • StatefulSets
  • Velero (Backup)
  • MinIO
  • Rook Ceph

API Management

  • Kong Gateway
  • Ambassador
  • OpenAPI/Swagger
  • GraphQL
  • Rate Limiting
  • API Versioning

Databases & Message Brokers

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • MongoDB
  • Apache Kafka
  • RabbitMQ

Policy & Governance

  • Open Policy Agent (OPA)
  • Gatekeeper
  • Kyverno
  • Policy as Code
  • Compliance Scanning
  • RBAC

Languages

Portuguese

Native speaker

English

Upper-Intermediate (B2)

Spanish

Basic (reading, writing, speaking)

Open Source Projects

tmux-powerkit

The Ultimate tmux Status Bar Framework with 42 plugins, 32 themes, contract-based architecture and intelligent caching system

Kubestronaut

Complete guide to mastering Kubernetes and earning KCNA, CKA, CKAD, CKS, and KCSA certifications — become a Kubestronaut!

Personal Blog

Blog where I discuss topics related to software development and solutions using open source tools

Integr8

Open source project focused on implementing continuous integration / deployment / quality pipelines

Talks & Publications

2020-02

Using GraphQL with VueJS for Building APIs

Speaker at Canoas/RS presenting about GraphQL integration with VueJS

2020-01

Containers for Anxious People

Speaker at Brasília/DF and Campina Grande/PB presenting container fundamentals