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• Senior Manager | Infrastructure and DevOps, Coconut Software

  Nov, 2023 - Oct, 202411 months

  Coconut Calendar, by Coconut Software, is an appointment scheduling queueing software for financial institutions that serves about 1MM appointments monthly, simplifying how banks and credit unions connect with their customers and members

  • Defined and led initiatives to refresh the application stack while driving cost efficiencies, that resulted in 2.5MM USD/year of savings in IaaS technologies (Migration to IaC, Autoscaling, Adoption of serverless technologies and cloud native architecture).

  • Defined path to short-circuit high volume of incidents, down to close to zero, reaching 99.99% uptime.

  • Led team of Devops and Platform engineers owning the cloud infrastructure, CI and CD pipelines, internal dev tools and incident management

• Senior Manager | Platform Engineering, LaunchDarkly

  May, 2023 - Aug, 20234 months

  LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves over 20 Trillion feature flags daily to help software teams build better software.

  • Led team of 10 engineers owning the infrastructure, service health and internal developer tooling with 99.99% uptime

  • Prioritized high-impact investments to modernize the application stack into an event-driven architecture to improve cost-effectiveness

  • Lead multiple service teams driving alignment and results over a hyper-growth, Event and Microservice based environment, running on AWS.

  • Note: This position was eliminated due to CEOs mandate to reduce workforce, including new joiners

• Director, Software Engineering | Platform Engineering, Tooling & SRE Divisions, Mavtek

  Nov, 2020 - May, 20232 years 6 months

  As the Director of Engineering, I was responsible for driving teams to build and execute a cloud native shared service strategy to deliver in a reliable, secure and resilient manner, while enabling to speed up the development lifecycle in environments with 2 million users and high load traffic, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD pipeline improvement and AWS native design and deploy. Within this position I:

  • Developed and implemented a strategy to move from a PHP monolith app, to an AWS Cloud Native microservice based paradigm for a US top 1000 website

  • Built services shared across engineering supporting 2 million monthly active users, with a 40% YoY growth

  • Scaled Platform Engineering team from 3 to 18 great engineers, with competences in AWS Cloud Native, Back End, Front End, SRE, DevEx and BI

  • Lead multiple service teams driving alignment and results over a hyper-growth, Event and Microservice based environment, running on AWS.

  • Reduced Developers Cycle time from days to less than 30 minutes (95% reduction) by creating Golden Paths

  • Drove adoption of our Internal Developer Platform to over 90%, providing out-of-the-box baselines and guardrails for SRE, CI/CD, Build/Release, Observability and Performance for new and existing microservices

  • Reduced 40% of CapEx on IaaS and SaaS by driving standardization of technologies

• Senior Manager | Data & Cyber Security products, Mastercard

  Aug, 2019 - Nov, 20201 year 3 months

  As a Delivery Lead, I was responsible of building and guiding teams to successfully bring services and products related with Data and Cyber to our clients through the Mastercard Network. I was also responsible of driving the evolution of Data & Services products/platform with an impact on all aspects of product development, from defining strategy to product design.

  • Responsible for building and guiding teams to deliver services and products related with Data and Cyber to our clients through the Mastercard Network.

  • Responsible for the delivery of the Data Management and Cyber Security solutions worldwide, as well as supporting the development of new products and service lines

  • Designed and delivered the first phase of Wellness Pass in African countries, enabling the digitization and safe storage of patient records, helping millions of patients receive their COVID vaccine, and store medical data offline.

  • Planned and executed the scaling of Cyber Security products (RiskRecon) into a microservice architecture to enable thousands of small business to use it for free

• Manager - Cloud Managed Services, Deloitte

  Aug, 2017 - Aug, 20192 years

  As a Manager within Deloitte's Cloud Managed Services, I was responsible for leading multiple strategic programs to build and scale the services supporting the onboarding of clients on the insurance and retail space, looking to move to Cloud environments. As the lead in this business line, I:

  • Created and delivered a multi-year strategy for multi cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) on-demand cloud management SaaS offerings through a client-face hub/spoke model, hosting high-profile customers like Peel Mutual Insurance,Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group

  • Expanded team of Devops engineers from 3 to 9, managing multitenant Kubernetes clusters, with a fully automated approach (GitOps)

• Senior Engineer | Cyber Security, Deloitte

  Apr, 2012 - Aug, 20175 years 4 months

  • Doing DevSecOps before it was cool. Fully automated Security in the build and release pipelines

  • Breaking stuff for fun and profit. Executed hundreds of penetration testing assessments for Deloitte’s top 25 clients.

Projects Experience

• Mastercard & Global Fund - Wellness Pass for Africa

  Aug, 2019 - Nov, 20201 year 3 months

  Design and delivery of Wellness Pass in African countries enabling the digitization and safe storage of patient records, helping patients access their records more easily and health workers to deliver a more consistent continuum of care.

• Deloitte - Build and Design of Cloud Managed Services

  Aug, 2017 - Aug, 20192 years

  Owned the strategy and delivery of multi cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure), turnkey, on-demand cloud management offerings through a client-face hub/spoke model, onboarding high profile clients

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