Resume
DevOps Engineer based in Braga, Portugal
π§ Email / π Website / π LinkedIn / π¨βπ» GitHub
πΌ Work Experience
Infrastructure Engineer @ Euronext (October 2024 - Present)
As the leading European capital market infrastructure, Euronext provides trusted and sustainable markets to drive innovation and growth.
- Administered, configured, and upgraded Red Hat OpenShift clusters to ensure high availability, optimal performance, and robust security for business-critical applications.
- Integrated Copenhagen and Oslo sites with legacy implementations of RHEL + OpenShift clusters within the Euronext Group to the existing Systemsβ procedures for automated patching, monitoring and compliance.
- Provided architectural recommendations to the High-Level System Design for a new OpenShift-based platform for CSD harmonisation based on microservices.
- Troubleshot and resolved system issues across 13 OpenShift clusters.
DevOps Engineer @ Issuu (December 2023 - October 2024)
First founded in 2006 as a Danish startup, Issuu is the industry-leading digital publishing platform.
- As an Infrastructure Engineer, maintained and developed 4 EKS clusters and dozens of legacy EC2 instances that provide the Issuu platform with 150+ microservices.
- Migrated to the latest version of GitHub Actions’ self-hosted runners achieving 99.99% uptime during and after the migration.
- Migrated AWS resources, Fastly and Grafana configuration to Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Migrated 10+ legacy applications to ArgoCD with Kustomize.
- Enhanced network security and efficiency by eliminating public IPv4 usage, optimizing DNS routing across VPCs, and cleaning up orphaned resources, reducing the AWS cloud costs by 10% yearly.
- Led post-mortem reviews by advocating for data-driven analysis.
- Supervised the system as part of 24/7 on-call rotations.
- Supporting 10+ Engineering teams with application and cluster troubleshooting.
Software Engineer @ OutSystems (April 2022 - December 2023)
OutSystems Developer Cloud (ODC) is a cloud-native, low-code application development platform. It supports Kubernetes, Linux containers, microservices, all on a foundation of Amazon Web Services (AWS) native cloud services.
- Development of a micro-services orchestration system in Python and Go on EKS providing a REST API backed by FastAPI and DynamoDB for the provisioning of resources across multiple Kubernetes clusters through NATS.
- Introduced performance and contract testing to the development pipeline in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with K6 and Pact.
- Performed infrastructure upgrades and maintenance on AWS through Terraform Cloud following IaC.
- Contributed to application and system monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana by developing custom metrics and dashboards.
- Recognized as an OutSystems Top Performer in 2022βs Year End Review.
- Supervised the system as part of 24/7 on-call rotations.
Research Grant Holder @ INESC TEC (April 2020 - March 2022)
INESC TEC is a private non-profit research association, with Public Interest status, dedicated to scientific research and technological development, technology transfer, advanced consulting and training, and pre-incubation of new technology-based companies.
- Introduced Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to the backend development process.
- Automated cluster configuration and deployment with Terraform, Ansible and Nomad.
- Led backend development in Django backed by PostgreSQL, and Public Key Infrastructure management in Vault for the Portuguese Mobile Driving Licence (ISO 18013-5) and EU Digital Green Certificate.
IT Consultant @ School of Economics and Management, UMinho (October 2021 - November 2021)
The School of Economics and Management (EEG) is a dynamic and innovative School acting at the level of research, teaching/learning and relationship with the social-economic fabric.
- Coordinated the migration of 3 legacy web platforms in Ruby on Rails to Docker containers
- Dockerized each platform, fixed security issues and implemented the migration process.
π¨π»βπ Education
Master of Informatics Engineering @ University of Minho (2016 - 2022)
- Awarded Excellence Award as the student that completed the course with the highest grade (17/20 ECTS).
- Specialized in Applications Engineering and Software Systems Engineering.
- Volunteer as:
- President of the Fiscal Council @ CeSIUM
- Mentor @ CoderDojoBraga
- Frontend Developer @ ENEI
π€ͺ Certifications, Skills & Interests
- Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (Jun. 2024), AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Aug. 2022), Certificate of Proficiency in English - C2 (2016)
- Skills: Python, Golang; AWS (EC2, EKS, DynamoDB); Kubernetes, OpenShift; Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Consul; Ansible; FastAPI, Django; Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix; K6, Pact.
- Interests: πββοΈ Swimming; πΉ piano; π reading; π urbanism; π puns; β»οΈ sustainability; π geopolitics; π traveling.