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Hi, I am Tiago Carreira

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Tiago Carreira (tcarreira)

Senior DevOps Engineer at Montblu

Having 10+ years of experience with DevOps, I’m experienced with modern technologies (eg: Docker), proficient with Linux systems and many DevOps tools (Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC) and I’m a Python and Go developer.

Passionate about Linux, Open Source and productivity (I love scripting and automation). No person should be a single point of failure - procedures should be documented and/or automated.

I’m looking towards working with smart people, with whom I could learn and help learning; where autonomy is a valuable asset and improving is more important than finding who made a mistake.

Also president of the board of ANSOL - Portuguese Association for Open Source Software (ansol.org).

Productivity
Fast Learning
Adaptability
Proactivity
Friendly
Solutionist

Work Experience

1
Montblu (as independent worker)

September 2024 - Present

full-remote | Lisbon, Portugal

Cloud infrastructure done right

DevOps Engineer

September 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Cloud management (AWS)
  • Infrastructure as Code - implementing best practices (Terraform)
RedCloud Technologies

August 2023 - August 2024

full-remote | Lisbon, Portugal

Intelligent Open Commerce Platform

Senior DevOps Engineer

August 2023 - August 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Cloud management (AWS + terraform)
  • Restructuring DevOps best practices and *-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Concourse-CI)
  • Developing & maintaining terraform providers + internal tooling (Bash, Go, Python)
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3
Globo.com

August 2020 - July 2023

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The biggest media company in Latin America

DevOps / Cloud Specialist @ tsuru.io

April 2022 - July 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Maintaining an Open Source PaaS (Platform as a Service) in Go - tsuru.io | github.com/tsuru
  • Managing multiple Kubernetes Clusters (with custom resources) - 300+ nodes | 15k+ pods
  • Core developer on Open Source Software (backend, cli, terraform providers - mainly Go)
DevOps Specialist

July 2021 - March 2022

Responsibilities:
  • Reliably migrating applications to GCP cloud, using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Support and extend functionality of an API Gateway (Kong)
  • Instructor on Docker technical training sessions
Senior DevOps Engineer (via Storm Group)

August 2020 - June 2021

Responsibilities:
  • Designed / improved CI/CD Pipelines, using Gitlab-CI and Docker
  • Improved reliability for an API Gateway (Kong), serving 10K requests/s
  • Programed and patch different code stacks (Bash, Go, Python, Lua, etc…)
SAPO

July 2017 - December 2019

Lisbon, Portugal

The national media content and services provider

DevOps / Operations Engineer (via BOLD by Devoteam)

July 2017 - December 2019

Responsibilities:
  • Implemented a monitoring stack with High Availability, using Grafana + Prometheus + Thanos
  • Developed a Python/Django RESTful API for SSL Cert management (from scratch to production)
  • DevOps advocate: improving Continuous Integration and best practices across the organization
  • Data Center migration: bare metal, VM’s, networking, data and storage (ensuring no downtime)
  • Maintaining 500+ servers (using Puppet), 100+ services, both legacy and modern systems, on-call 24/7
  • Solving internal operational tickets: forensics, bugs detection, infrastructure management
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Premium Minds

December 2013 - June 2017

Lisbon, Portugal

Software house, delivering premium technological solutions to their clients

DevOps Engineer

December 2013 - June 2017

Responsibilities:
  • Migrated on-premises infrastructure to AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, etc…) - infrastructure as code with Python/boto3
  • Defined the infrastructure and deployment pipeline for a High Available service on AWS - telpark.com
  • Managing Continuous Integration using Jenkins and Puppet

Education

Certifications
Taken Courses:
  • August 2022 - CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator @ The Linux Foundation
  • September 2021 - GCP: Associate Cloud Engineer @ Google Cloud Certified
Training and Courses
Taken Courses:
  • June 2022 - CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator @ A Cloud Guru
  • July 2021 - Cloud Engineer @ Pluralsight
  • May 2020 - NDG Linux I/II course @ Cisco Networking Academy
  • Jan 2019 - LPI DevOps Tools Engineer @ Linux Academy
  • Mar 2017 - Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) @ e-careers
Técnico Lisboa - University of Lisbon
2012-2017
MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Publications:
Taken Courses:
  • Major - Robotics & Control Systems
  • Minor - Computers
  • Database management
  • Objects Oriented Programming
  • Robotics
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Center for Electrical and Computer Engineering (Autonomous Section)
  • TUIST (Musical Band)

Technical Skills

Linux
Linux

Using Linux as daily Operating System. Mainly Ubuntu, but also Debian and CentOS/RHEL

Containers
Containers

Maintaining multiple Kubernetes clusters (300+ nodes) and running dockerized containers as much as possible. Docker speaker and evangelist

Cloud
Cloud

Building, managing and deploying services on Cloud. Certified on Google Cloud (GCP). Experienced with AWS and other PaaS such as Tsuru or Heroku

Automation
Automation

I’m lazy and don’t like to repeat tedious tasks. Experienced with Puppet, Terraform and Ansible

CI/CD
CI/CD

Running custom and reliable Continuous Integration/Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Experienced with Jenkins, Gitlab-CI and Github Actions

Observability
Observability

Monitoring with Prometheus and visualizing with Grafana (and alarms only when needed). Also experienced with ELK stack, Sentry and Jaeger

Bash / Shell
Bash / Shell

Living in the terminal, and automating as much as feasible. I’m married to Bash (despite having an affair with zsh)

Git
Git

Provides traceability, experimentation and collaboration. Experienced with Gitlab and Github (this website is hosted on Github Pages)

REST
REST

Developing and using RESTful applications everywhere. Experienced with managing a API Gateway as a Service (Kong)

Python
Python

Using as the main language for scripting and solving problems. Also experienced with Web Development using Django

Go
Go

Using as the main language for performant applications and CLI tools for devs. Also using it for extending K8S custom resources and Terraform providers

SQL / NoSQL
SQL / NoSQL

Deep understanding of SQL and experienced with PostgreSQL and MySQL administration. Knowledged on NoSQL (MongoDB)

Projects

Terraform Provider (and API s/c)
Owner Apr 2023

Published a terraform provider for my custom API server (and a go client) for testing CRUD

technical go rest terraform
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Public talks (and slides)
Speaker 2019-2023

Slides (made with remark-js) for my public talks - presentation slides as code

technical hobby docker talks
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Advent of Code 2022
streamer | coder Dec 2022

Solving AoC riddles with Golang. Daily live streaming and solutions on youtube

technical go advent of code
Details
Technical advisor for CA course
Feb 2021

Advisor for teaching Computer Architecture fundamentals to teenagers (treetree2.school)

hobby docker
Details
Podcast (100% open sourced)
producer | host | publisher | editor Sep 2020 - Jan 2021

100% free and open sourced podcast (hosting, website, art, automation, etc.)

hobby markdown github-actions
Details
Advent of Code 2020/21/22
coder Dec 2020 / 2021 / 2022

Solving programming puzzles in python (puzzles from adventofcode.com)

technical python go
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Dashboard for running activities
owner Jun 2020

ROAW (Run Once A Week) - A dashboard for comparing Strava users’ activities

hobby go heroku
Details
Django on Docker
teacher Dec 2019

A Django application (with celery) in Docker, used as demo for a talk

technical python docker talks
Details
Manage remote slides with SSE
Oct 2019

REST API for real time updates on a browser, using Server Side Events

hobby html go
Details

Personal Endeavors

Adrenaline seeker

Being a father of two

Sports

Video production

Sports

Podcasting

Music

Contacts