Paulo Sampaio

Engineering Manager - Cloud/SRE

paulo.vicente.neto@gmail.com +49 0176 9314 7553 linkedin.com/in/paulo-sampaio-neto Berlin, Germany (Relocating to Brazil - Available for LATAM remote)

Engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling high-performing Cloud/SRE teams. I combine deep technical expertise in AWS/GCP with proven leadership capabilities in team development, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision making. Passionate about developing talent, fostering collaboration across engineering organizations, and delivering measurable business outcomes through strategic infrastructure initiatives.

Experience

Engineering Manager - Cloud/SRE

Taxfix
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Lead and develop a 5-person Cloud/SRE team within the Platform Group, driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across Taxfix's engineering organization. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with business objectives, while mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Achievements:
  • Built and scaled the SRE team through strategic hiring, structured onboarding programs, and continuous professional development initiatives.
  • Established mentorship framework that accelerated team members' growth in cloud technologies, SRE practices, and leadership capabilities.
  • Led organization through first peak traffic season with zero incidents, contributing to record profitability in company history.
  • Orchestrated onboarding of multiple acquired companies into unified cloud infrastructure.

Systems Engineer

Bonial
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Worked in the systems engineering team managing mission-critical infrastructure serving 4M+ monthly active users. Collaborated with product and engineering teams to optimize deployment pipelines, strengthen security posture, and improve operational efficiency.

Key Achievements:
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Spinnaker and Jenkins, reducing deployment time by 60% while improving reliability.
  • Led SecOps initiative integrated with AWS SecurityHub.
  • Mentored junior engineers on Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud architecture best practices.

DevOps Chapter Leader

Stoodi
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Built and led DevOps team from the ground up, establishing team culture, hiring practices, and operational processes.

Key Achievements:
  • Recruited, hired, and onboarded high-performing DevOps team of 5 engineers.
  • Delivered infrastructure supporting 5M+ visitors during peak days.
  • Achieved 40x traffic growth with <1% cost increase through data-driven resource optimization.

Head of Engineering

Eclabs (eCGroup)
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Provided technical leadership for cloud strategy and engineering operations across multiple development teams.

Key Achievements:
  • Led organizational transformation from siloed teams to collaborative agile squads.
  • Established transparent project management practices, improving on-time delivery from 40% to 95%.

Owner

Vortech Informática
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Started a small IT Services company focused on automation, monitoring and several IT infrastructure management tasks, preventing downtime and improving productivity and cost-efficiency.

Key Achievements:
  • Vast experience with mixed networks and open-source solutions.
  • Trained the crew and formed a great technical team.

IT Coordinator

eCGlobalSolutions (eCGroup)
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Responsible for improving IT productivity and infrastructure robustness, ensuring that IT is aligned with global company goals, introducing innovation to the IT team.

Key Achievements:
  • Several web apps planned, delivered and improved over the years, using Java, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Neo4J, Nginx and several other open-source solutions, mostly running on AWS EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk.
  • Team organization and overall optimization.

Systems Administrator

eCGlobalPanel (eCGroup)
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Responsible for maintaining all servers and IT networks, also for supporting the development team using PHP, Java, Python applications.

Key Achievements:
  • Migration from bare metal servers to AWS.
  • Implementing a robust and fully featured IT development environment.

Junior Entrepreneur

InfoJr UFBA
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Developed several PHP projects as a member of the junior company at my university while also actively contributing with other junior companies in Bahia. Elected to be InfoJr President in 2009 and part of the council in 2010.

Key Achievements:
  • Elected to be InfoJr President in 2009.
  • Councilor at NEJ-UFBA.
  • Councilor at the State Federation of Junior Companies.
  • Participation in several projects and events.

Skills & Expertise

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible

DevOps/SRE

CI/CD, GitLab, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Monitoring, Incident Mgt

AI Platform Engineering

AI Infrastructure, AI Platform Engineering, LLMOps, Automation, Python

Leadership

Team Building, Mentorship, Strategy, OKRs

Education

Computer Science (Not Graduated)

UFBA
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Philosophy

  • People First: Invest in team growth
  • Data-Driven: Metrics-based decisions
  • Collaborative: Build strong partnerships
  • Continuous Improvement: Embrace change