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Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Belo Horizonte - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Toptal member since May 2, 2018
Bio
Felipe is a staff-level platform, reliability, and cloud engineer with 20+ years in IT, owning large-scale production systems end-to-end. He specializes in platform engineering, SRE, and cloud architecture for systems serving millions of users, with a strong focus on reliability, automation, and cost efficiency. He has led DevOps and infrastructure initiatives, standardized CI/CD and Kubernetes platforms, and delivered a 46% reduction in cloud costs.
Portfolio
Anova Sports
Serverless GPUs, GPU Computing, PyTorch, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure
Whip Media
Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Cloud Computing Services, Jenkins...
Toptal Clients
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, Apache Airflow, Spark, Elasticsearch...
Experience
- Python - 17 years
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - 15 years
- Back-end Development - 15 years
- Software Architecture - 14 years
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - 12 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 12 years
- Data Pipelines - 10 years
- Kubernetes - 6 years
Preferred Environment
Python, Go, Kubernetes, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Distributed Systems, Databricks
The most amazing...
...thing: I architected and owned large-scale platforms for big data and media streaming, balancing reliability, security, performance, and cost at scale.
Work Experience
Cloud Architect and MLOps Platform Engineer
2025 - PRESENT
Anova Sports
- Architected and owned end-to-end, production-grade computer vision systems, spanning data ingestion, large-scale video inference, and results persistence at scale.
- Delivered a scalable, cost-efficient CV platform with strong MLOps guarantees, including model versioning, inference traceability, and reproducible deployments for safe iteration in production.
- Worked cross-functionally with product and AI teams to translate ambiguous requirements into robust back-end systems, powering real-world AI products used by high-impact end users.
Technologies: Serverless GPUs, GPU Computing, PyTorch, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure
Senior DevOps Engineer
2018 - PRESENT
Whip Media
- Owned security, reliability, performance, and cloud operations for a large-scale, production platform serving millions of users, acting across SRE, platform engineering, and cloud architecture responsibilities.
- Led cloud cost optimization and architecture strategy, implementing best practices that resulted in a 46% reduction in total cloud spend while maintaining performance and reliability.
- Drove site reliability engineering practices, including pre-mortems and post-mortems, hands-on debugging from networking through application code, and operational readiness for systems at massive scale.
- Built and led platform engineering and DevOps initiatives, automating infrastructure and workflows to reduce operational overhead and significantly improve engineering team efficiency.
- Designed and standardized CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, and infrastructure-as-code across multiple AWS accounts, supporting and unifying delivery for 300+ codebases.
- Developed data and MLOps pipelines for large-scale data ingestion, processing, training, and migration across databases, data warehouses, and data lakes.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Cloud Computing Services, Jenkins, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, Lambda Functions, New Relic, Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch, Google Cloud, Apache Airflow, Databricks, Azure Databricks, CircleCI, AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, Istio, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Digital Platform Development, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Software Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Architecture, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Terraform, Microservices, NoSQL, Docker, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Shell Scripting, Networks, Python, Data Architecture, Cloud Patterns, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Vim Text Editor, CI/CD Pipelines, Scripting, Data Migration, Data Pipelines, Back-end Development, GitHub, GitOps, Automation, SaaS, Cloud, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Prometheus, NGINX, Architecture, Helm, Cloudflare, Bash, Security, Serverless, AWS Security Hub, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL, Fastlane, Troubleshooting, PostgreSQL, Linux, AWS Cloud Architecture, DNS, Cloud FinOps, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), IT Systems Architecture, Firewalls, Database Architecture, Database Applications, Apache Spark, Automation Scripting, Databases, Database Administration (DBA), Amazon EC2 API, Amazon RDS, Cloud Cost Management, Amazon EC2, VPN, Data Engineering, Data Processing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, APIs, AWS DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure
DevOps | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Software Architect
2018 - PRESENT
Toptal Clients
- Developed standards on infrastructure as code (IaC), continuous integration, alerting, and monitoring, helping data and application engineers to build, monitor, improve and debug eventual issues in production quicker and easier.
- Helped to prepare AWS accounts, using the best standards in terms of security and management simplicity, making it possible to continuously grow the company, and smoothing the absorption and integration with newly acquired companies and applications.
- Architected, developed, and scaled microservices for high loads of requests (API) and processing (media scraping, transcode, and metadata extraction), using Python or Go languages, running on Amazon EKS (Kubernetes), Lambda, and Fargate (serverless).
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Databricks, Apache Airflow, Spark, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, FFmpeg, Data Architecture, Jenkins, Continuous Delivery (CD), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Shell Scripting, Networks, Site Reliability, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Linux, Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Serverless Framework, Microservices, Cloud Patterns, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Cloud Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Terraform, PostgreSQL, Git, Flask, Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, PHP, Go, Python, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Software Architecture, Makefile, Datadog, New Relic, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Digital Platform Development, AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, Istio, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Lambda Functions, Amazon CloudWatch, Network Engineering, IT Security, NoSQL, Scripting, Data Migration, Data Pipelines, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Back-end Development, Video Processing, Video Streaming, GitHub, GitOps, Automation, SaaS, Cloud, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Apache Kafka, NGINX, Architecture, Helm, Cloudflare, Bash, Security, Serverless, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL, Fastlane, Troubleshooting, AWS Cloud Architecture, DNS, Cloud FinOps, IT Systems Architecture, Firewalls, Database Architecture, Database Applications, Automation Scripting, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Databases, Database Administration (DBA), Amazon EC2 API, Amazon RDS, Cloud Cost Management, Amazon EC2, Data Engineering, Data Processing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, GPU Computing, APIs, AWS DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure
Data Architect Consultant
2018 - 2018
Cinnecta
- Helped the company to simplify and scale big data (data lake, data warehouse, and real-time) systems by rearchitecting the projects responsible for collecting, processing, and storing events-based data.
- Built POCs to present evaluations of cloud providers and develop data migration plans.
- Fostered culture building, provided training, and offered guidance to tech teams.
Technologies: Elasticsearch, Redis, Data Architecture, Continuous Delivery (CD), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Shell Scripting, Networks, Linux, Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), CircleCI, Microservices, Cloud Patterns, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Cloud Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Terraform, Git, Flask, Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Ruby, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Spark, Python, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, Software Architecture, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Lambda, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Amazon CloudWatch, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, NoSQL, Scripting, Data Migration, Data Pipelines, Back-end Development, GitHub, Automation, SaaS, Cloud, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), Apache Kafka, NGINX, Architecture, Cloudflare, Bash, Security, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL, Troubleshooting, PostgreSQL, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud FinOps, IT Systems Architecture, Firewalls, Database Architecture, Database Applications, Apache Spark, Automation Scripting, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Databases, Database Administration (DBA), Amazon EC2 API, Amazon RDS, Cloud Cost Management, Amazon EC2, Data Engineering, Data Processing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, APIs, AWS DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure
Head of Engineering
2017 - 2018
Samba Tech
- Headed the engineering area of the company, translating business strategy into technological solutions.
- Managed high-performance teams (30 people distributed in five teams) and helped them make better architectural decisions.
- Created and implemented new effective engineering strategies—encouraging "bottom-up" innovations over processes and tools and knowledge sharing, which engaged people in continuous improvements over operational and tactical scopes.
- Achieved a remarkable 56% average increase in productivity for all product development squads within the first six months.
- Managed the key performance indicators (KPI), objectives and key results (OKR), and budgets.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redis, FFmpeg, Data Architecture, Jenkins, Continuous Delivery (CD), Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Site Reliability, Google Cloud, Linux, Vim Text Editor, Microservices, Cloud Patterns, Continuous Integration (CI), PostgreSQL, Git, Flask, Amazon DynamoDB, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, DevSecOps, AWS Lambda, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Networks, Data Pipelines, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Video Processing, Video Streaming, GitHub, Automation, SaaS, Cloud, Architecture, Cloudflare, Security, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL, Troubleshooting, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud FinOps, IT Systems Architecture, Database Architecture, Database Applications, Apache Spark, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Over-the-top Content (OTT), Databases, Database Administration (DBA), Amazon EC2 API, Amazon RDS, Cloud Cost Management, Amazon EC2, Data Engineering, Data Processing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Network Security, GPU Computing, APIs, AWS DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure
Software Architect | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
2012 - 2018
Samba Tech
- Designed the architecture and developed the services related to the multi-tenant SaaS (OVP and OTT) solutions.
- Designed, analyzed, and troubleshot large-scale distributed systems.
- Developed internal tools and explored emerging technologies—continuously improving performance, scalability, availability, and the direct and indirect costs.
- Led the technical aspects for the engineering and operations teams.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Elasticsearch, FFmpeg, Data Architecture, Jenkins, Continuous Delivery (CD), Ansible, Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Site Reliability, JavaScript, Google Cloud, Linux, Vim Text Editor, CircleCI, Microservices, Cloud Patterns, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Continuous Integration (CI), PostgreSQL, Git, Flask, Amazon DynamoDB, MySQL, Networks, Shell Scripting, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Azure, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, New Relic, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Lambda, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Lambda Functions, Amazon CloudWatch, Digital Platform Development, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, NoSQL, Scripting, Data Migration, Data Pipelines, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Back-end Development, Video Processing, Video Streaming, GitHub, GitOps, Automation, SaaS, Cloud, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), NGINX, Architecture, Bash, Security, Serverless, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL, Troubleshooting, AWS Cloud Architecture, DNS, Cloud FinOps, IT Systems Architecture, Firewalls, Database Architecture, Database Applications, Apache Spark, Automation Scripting, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Over-the-top Content (OTT), Databases, Database Administration (DBA), Amazon EC2 API, Amazon RDS, Cloud Cost Management, Amazon EC2, Data Engineering, Data Processing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, Network Security, APIs, AWS DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure
Full-stack Software Engineer | DevOps | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
2010 - 2012
Incode Software
- Contributed to various projects with roles in analysis, modeling, development, troubleshooting, and fine-tuning of systems engaging with Brazilian and international customers on the sundry focus of the business.
- Worked on various projects for banking automation, email marketing, a GUI for a Fibre Channel, a Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), and SAS/SATA protocol analyzer appliance, and applications for the management of F5 significant IPs.
- Modeled and developed architectural patterns in highly complex systems using open sources or Microsoft technologies.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jenkins, Site Reliability, JavaScript, Linux, Vim Text Editor, PostgreSQL, Git, MySQL, Networks, Shell Scripting, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Tcl, C#, PHP, Python, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, DevSecOps, DevOps, Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Amazon CloudWatch, Network Engineering, IT Security, Scripting, Data Migration, Back-end Development, GitHub, Chef, Automation, SaaS, Cloud, NGINX, Architecture, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Solution Architecture, SQL, Troubleshooting, AWS Cloud Architecture, DNS, IT Systems Architecture, Firewalls, Database Architecture, Database Applications, Automation Scripting, On-premise, Email Delivery, Databases, Database Administration (DBA), Amazon EC2 API, Amazon EC2, Data Engineering, Data Processing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), VPN, Network Security, APIs, Cloud Infrastructure
Software Engineer | Full-stack Developer
2009 - 2010
International Syst
- Performed research and development of software solutions related to the Linux operating system, providing tools for automating Infrastructure.
- Developed and packed Linux distros in partnership with Intel, ASUS, Positivo, and the Brazilian Government.
- Utilized programming languages such as Python, Perl, shell scripting, PHP, and C++.
Technologies: Linux, Vim Text Editor, MySQL, Networks, Shell Scripting, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, Distributed Systems, REST APIs, DevSecOps, DevOps, Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Amazon CloudWatch, Network Engineering, IT Security, Scripting, Back-end Development, Automation, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking, SQL, Troubleshooting, Firewalls, Database Applications, Automation Scripting, On-premise, Databases, Database Administration (DBA), VPN, Network Security, APIs
Systems Administrator
2007 - 2009
Hospital das Clinicas da UFMG
- Provided 3rd-level support and technical team leadership.
- Managed mission-critical servers based on Linux, Unix, and Windows; DBMS (Microsoft SQL Server), MySQL, and InterSystems Caché.
- Developed applications for monitoring and automation of mission-critical servers, aiming to comply with high availability, performance, and security requirements.
- Standardized and documented the processes and development of applications intending to simplify and automate procedures performed by the 1st-level support team.
- Analyzed, designed, developed, and operated various IT services and security projects.
Technologies: Linux, Vim Text Editor, MySQL, Networks, Shell Scripting, Windows, Perl, Python, Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Scripting, Automation, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking, SQL, Troubleshooting, DNS, Firewalls, Database Architecture, Automation Scripting, On-premise, Email Delivery, Databases, Database Administration (DBA), VPN, Network Security
IT Technician
2003 - 2007
SPM Infor
- Managed the IT systems and networks for a small business.
- Developed and maintained the IT infrastructure and security projects.
- Implemented technical support from the 1st to the 3rd level.
Technologies: Vim Text Editor, Networks, Shell Scripting, Windows, Linux, Infor, Networking, TCP/IP, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Scripting, Automation, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking, Troubleshooting, DNS, Firewalls, Automation Scripting, On-premise, Email Delivery, VPN, Network Security
Experience
GitHub | Simple Scripts to Aid Site Reliability Engineers
https://github.com/frmaia/uscripts• A small project with simple scripts that can help site-reliability engineers to emulate/reproduce some system issues and troubleshooting.
GitHub | Sample Project in Java and Spring Boot
https://github.com/frmaia/api-stats• A small sample project that I wrote in Java using the Spring Boot framework.
GitHub | Sample Project in Python, Flask, and Docker Compose
https://github.com/frmaia/nextbus-api-extension• A small sample project that I wrote in Python, Flask, and Docker Compose. Used Redis to implement a Cache-Aside cloud pattern and to implement some sample API manager features.
Education
2025 - 2026
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Computer Vision
ICA PUC Rio - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009 - 2010
Specialist's Degree in Computer Software Engineering
UFMG | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
2006 - 2009
Bachelor's Degree in Systems Analysis and Development (Computer Science)
Centro Universitario Anhanguera | Fabrai - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Certifications
OCTOBER 2023 - OCTOBER 2026
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Amazon EC2 API, FFmpeg, PyTorch
Tools
Git, Apache Airflow, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EKS, GitHub, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), NGINX, Vim Text Editor, CircleCI, Jenkins, Ansible, Makefile, Istio, Helm, Fastlane, VPN, Mesos, Chef
Languages
SQL, Go, Python, Java, Bash, PHP, C#, Tcl, Perl, C++, Ruby, JavaScript, Bash Script
Paradigms
Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, DevOps, Automation, Microservices
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Databricks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), New Relic, Azure, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Amazon, Apache Kafka
Storage
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Data Pipelines, Memcached, Elasticsearch, Amazon DynamoDB, NoSQL, Datadog, Database Architecture, On-premise, Databases, Database Administration (DBA), Google Cloud, Redis
Frameworks
Spark, Serverless Framework, Flask, Spring, Apache Spark
Other
Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Distributed Systems, Networks, Site Reliability, Cloud Patterns, CI/CD Pipelines, Digital Platform Development, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Back-end Development, Video Processing, Video Streaming, Cloud Monitoring, SaaS, Cloud, Architecture, Serverless, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, Troubleshooting, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud FinOps, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), IT Systems Architecture, Automation Scripting, Over-the-top Content (OTT), Amazon RDS, Cloud Cost Management, Data Engineering, Data Processing, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), APIs, AWS DevOps, Serverless GPUs, Cloud Infrastructure, MPEG-DASH, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Video Codecs, Data Architecture, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Shell Scripting, Network Architecture, Network Design, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Scripting, Data Migration, GitHub Actions, GitOps, Cloudflare, Security, AWS Security Hub, Mail Servers, DNS, Firewalls, Database Applications, Email Delivery, Network Security, GPU Computing, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Lambda Functions, Azure Databricks, Engineering Software, Computer Science, Algorithms, Infor, Prometheus, Platform Engineering, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Cloud Computing
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