Infrastructure Engineer
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
UTC-3
I make production boring.
Reliable, observable and cheaper to run.
Seventeen years in infrastructure, six of them running Kubernetes in production on EKS, AKS and GKE — from a 30-cluster global fleet to GitOps delivery with Argo CD, Flux and Helm charts written in-house.
Selected projects
- 2025–2026KojoDistributed tracing as a platform defaultOrg-wide OpenTelemetry on EKS, shipped entirely through Argo CD and Kargo.
- 2025–2026KojoCircleCI to GitHub ActionsHalved pipeline duration at neutral cost by changing the instance, not the jobs.
- 2025via CurotecSight MachineGPU clusters for NVIDIA Omniverse digital twinsPer-customer AKS clusters with GPU nodes, delivered as repeatable Terraform.
- 2025via ToptalToptalAccessibility remediation platformSole infrastructure engineer on a WCAG 2.2 AA platform, live in production.
- 2023–2024via ToptalCoinListEC2 to ECS, at 12.5% of the costCut infrastructure cost 87.5% and application scaling time 88% on ECS.
- 2022–2023via CaylentTeleTrackingHub-and-spoke across three regionsAzure to AWS for a healthcare platform: centralised ingress and egress.
- 2022–2023via CaylentWhatnotSpellML to SageMakerMoved a recommendation engine onto SageMaker and built the MLOps around it.
- 2022–2023via CaylentWeb3 ProGovernance for ten AWS accountsControl Tower and Account Factory for Terraform over an ungoverned estate.
- 2022–2023via CaylentEVgoRackspace bare metal to AWSRe-platformed three applications onto EKS and CloudFront, minimal downtime.
- 2022–2023via CaylentArt of Problem SolvingContainers for a team with no DevOpsECS Fargate and CircleCI for a platform four products had to share.
- 2024via Toptal4 Elements MusicOne manual EC2 box to containers on FargateTerraform, Fargate and blue/green delivery over a hand-deployed instance.
- 2016–2017MuxiTwo datacenters to AWS for a payments platformLed a payments migration to AWS and introduced Terraform to the company.