Luís Alves

Resume

Posted on May 12, 2023

Software Engineer based in Braga, Portugal

📧 Email / 🌐 Website / 📂 LinkedIn / 👨‍💻 GitHub

💼 Work Experience

Software Engineer @ OutSystems (April 2022 - Present)

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 2022’s 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.

👨🏻‍🎓 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:

🤪 Certifications, Skills & Interests

  • Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Aug. 2022), Certificate of Proficiency in English - C2 (2016)
  • Skills: Python, Golang; AWS (EC2, EKS, DynamoDB); Kubernetes; Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Consul; Ansible; FastAPI, Django; Prometheus, Grafana; K6, Pact.
  • Interests: 🏊‍♂️ Swimming; 🎹 piano; 📚 reading; 🌇 urbanism; 🍞 puns; ♻️ sustainability; 🌎 geopolitics; 🎒 traveling.