Experience
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.
Leadership & Team Development
- 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.
- Implemented data-driven performance metrics and OKRs to track team productivity, service reliability, and business impact.
Strategic & Technical Achievements
- 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, managing complex stakeholder relationships and technical migrations.
- Established company's MLOps capabilities, integrating AI tools into engineering workflows and infrastructure automation.
- Created comprehensive documentation standards and knowledge-sharing practices, reducing onboarding time by 40%.
Led 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 through automation and monitoring.
Achievements
- Built strong cross-functional partnerships with security, product, and engineering teams to align infrastructure initiatives with business goals.
- 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, implementing controls for CIS, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA compliance.
- Mentored junior engineers on Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud architecture best practices.
Built and led DevOps team from the ground up, establishing team culture, hiring practices, and operational processes. Partnered with development teams to modernize infrastructure and implement DevOps best practices that dramatically improved deployment velocity and system reliability.
Team Building & Leadership
- Recruited, hired, and onboarded high-performing DevOps team of 5 engineers, creating structured interview process and evaluation criteria.
- Developed team training programs and career development paths, resulting in 100% retention during tenure.
- Fostered collaborative culture through regular 1-on-1s, team retrospectives, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Business Impact
- Delivered infrastructure supporting 4M+ visitors during peak season through proactive capacity planning and performance optimization.
- Achieved 10x traffic growth with <1% cost increase through data-driven resource optimization and architectural improvements.
- Maintained 100% uptime during critical business periods through robust monitoring and incident response processes.
Provided technical leadership for cloud strategy and engineering operations across multiple development teams. Transformed underperforming team into agile, high-velocity squads through structured processes, clear communication, and strategic alignment with company objectives.
Achievements
- Led organizational transformation from siloed teams to collaborative agile squads, implementing Scrum and Kanban methodologies.
- Established transparent project management practices with clear metrics, improving on-time delivery from 40% to 95%.
- Built strong partnerships with business stakeholders to align technical roadmap with company strategy and revenue goals.
- Created comprehensive technical documentation and process guidelines that became company standards.
Started a small IT Services company focused on automation, monitoring and several IT infrastructure management tasks, preventing downtime and improving productivity and cost-efficiency.
Achievements
- Vast experience with mixed networks and open-source solutions.
- Trained the crew and formed a great technical team.
Responsible for improving IT productivity and infrastructure robustness, ensuring that IT is aligned with global company goals, introducing innovation to the IT team.
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.
Responsible for maintaining all servers and IT networks, also for supporting the development team using PHP, Java, Python applications.
Achievements
- Migration from bare metal servers to AWS.
- Implementing a robust and fully featured IT development environment.
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.
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.