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Experience

total experience
12 yrs 10 mos
companies
6
based in
Lisbon, Portugal
  1. GoCardless logo

    Site Reliability Engineer

    Nov 2025 – Present · 1 yr

    Lisbon, PortugalRemote

    • Operate the Kubernetes (GKE) clusters behind mission-critical payment infrastructure, keeping them highly available and performant.
    • Automate and maintain GCP infrastructure with Terraform.
    • Respond to and troubleshoot incidents, and contribute to post-mortem analysis.
    • Support observability initiatives with Prometheus, Grafana and distributed tracing.
    • Partner with engineering teams on reliability improvements and system design.
    • Kubernetes
    • GCP
    • Terraform
    • Docker
    • Python
    • Go
    • GitHub Actions
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
  2. Altium logo

    DevOps Engineer

    Mar 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Lisbon, PortugalRemote

    • Led the infrastructure transformation that followed Altium's acquisition of Valispace, covering tenant migration and Kubernetes adoption.
    • Migrated 150+ single-tenant SaaS customers from a legacy AWS account into a consolidated multi-account setup.
    • Built reusable Terraform modules for standardised tenant provisioning and automated the migration workflows, reducing manual work and risk.
    • Moved workloads from EC2 to EKS, speeding up deployments and enabling zero-downtime rollbacks.
    • Wrote Helm charts and Helmfile configuration for 30+ microservices, standardising how they deploy.
    • Built and maintained Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines and introduced GitOps workflows with a clear audit trail.
    • Kubernetes
    • EKS
    • Terraform
    • Helm
    • Helmfile
    • Jenkins
    • GitHub Actions
    • Docker
    • Python
    • Bash
    • Django
    • OpenSearch
    • AWS
  3. Valispace logo

    Valispace

    DevOps Engineer

    Oct 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Lisbon, PortugalOn-site

    • Moved the entire AWS account from manual configuration to Terraform, bringing VPC, EC2, RDS, S3 and security groups under version control.
    • Developed reusable Terraform modules for consistent environment provisioning.
    • Replaced legacy EC2 hosts with ECS-based services for the Django application, improving scalability and deployment flexibility.
    • Built GitHub Actions pipelines for Docker builds, security scanning and deployments.
    • Created install and upgrade tooling for on-premise Valispace deployments in customers' secure environments, cutting their implementation time.
    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • ECS
    • Docker
    • GitHub Actions
    • Python
    • Bash
    • Django
    • OpenSearch
    • Linux
  4. Mercedes-Benz.io logo

    Mercedes-Benz.io

    Feb 2019 – Oct 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Site Reliability Engineer

    Nov 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr

    Lisbon, PortugalOn-site

    • Rolled out Datadog monitoring for Mercedes-Benz global e-commerce platforms, integrated with the existing Kubernetes and Docker infrastructure.
    • Designed dashboards tracking application performance, infrastructure health and key business metrics.
    • Worked with development teams on performance analysis and optimisation.
    • Took part in the on-call rotation and applied SRE practices: SLIs, SLOs and incident management.
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Datadog
    • Jenkins
    • Zabbix
    • Spring Boot
    • Linux
    • Bash

    Support Engineer, Digital Commerce

    Feb 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Lisbon, Portugal / Stuttgart, GermanyOn-site

    • Provided second-level support for all Mercedes-Benz e-commerce platforms, escalating complex cases to product teams.
    • Kept the bare-metal servers behind the platform healthy and performant.
    • Contributed to the release process and coordinated incident response to minimise downtime.
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Zabbix
    • Datadog
    • Jenkins
    • Linux
  5. BNP Paribas Securities Services logo

    BNP Paribas Securities Services

    Application Support

    Apr 2018 – Jan 2019 · 10 mos

    Lisbon, PortugalOn-site

    • Provided second-line support for a banking application used by clients for reporting and online transactions.
    • Analysed SQL procedures to troubleshoot bank-file integrations and monitored database loads.
    • Acted as Incident Manager, coordinating responses to high-impact issues.
    • SQL
    • Linux
    • Git
  6. Fnac logo

    Fnac

    IT Helpdesk Technician

    Jan 2014 – Apr 2018 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Lisbon, PortugalOn-site

    • Supported headquarters and 20+ retail stores, remotely and on site.
    • Managed server racks and maintained infrastructure.
    • Windows Server
    • Active Directory