Andre Fagundes, Developer in Porto Alegre - State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Andre Fagundes

Verified Expert  in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Porto Alegre - State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Toptal member since November 8, 2024

Expertise
LinuxKubernetesTerraformJenkinsAWSAutomationAnsibleGolangDatadogRubyJavaScript
Bio

Andre is a DevOps engineer with 20+ years of experience delivering IT services in food processing, steel production, energy, airlines, financial services, and internet industries. He’s a T-shaped, bilingual professional specializing in system administration and databases. Andre is also well-versed in build and release management, cloud computing, software development, and configuration management.

Portfolio

OpenVPN
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo CD, CI/CD Pipelines...
iSeatz
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Datadog, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline...

Experience

  • Linux - 20 years
  • Kubernetes - 7 years
  • Terraform - 7 years
  • Jenkins - 7 years
  • CI/CD Pipelines - 7 years
  • Automation - 7 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
  • Go - 3 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Go, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Terraform, Jenkins, Prometheus

The most amazing...

...solution I've built is a Kubernetes operator to integrate two other applications running on Kubernetes.

Work Experience

DevOps Engineer

2022 - PRESENT
OpenVPN
  • Managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Helm and Argo CD.
  • Created and maintained Ansible playbooks, collections, and modules.
  • Developed and maintained Helm charts for multiple applications.
  • Created and maintained Terraform code modules and infrastructure.
  • Monitored a multi-cloud environment using Prometheus, Grafana, and Opsgenie.
  • Built and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for several applications.
  • Implemented Jenkins Groovy libraries to simplify jobs.
  • Designed and Maintained Argo CD workflows and jobs.
  • Managed Artifactory and conducted artifact repository technology migrations.
  • Automated several processes and workflows using Go and Python.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo CD, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Automation, Terraform, Ansible

DevOps Engineer

2021 - 2022
iSeatz
  • Created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, Ansible, Helm, and Argo CD.
  • Maintained the Terraform live infrastructure code and modules.
  • Implemented and integrated SonarQube into the CI process for 60+ micro-services.
  • Supported and maintained Kubernetes clusters on AWS.
  • Reduced applications' build time by optimizing Docker images.
  • Replaced Docker base images using Buildkite and implemented multi-stage builds for containers running legacy OS versions.
  • Supported and monitored AWS infrastructure and applications using Datadog and Catchpoint.
  • Integrated Artifactory into CI/CD pipelines for container image scanning.
  • Performed postmortem and root cause analysis of critical incidents.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Datadog, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, Argo CD, Terraform, Ansible, Artifactory, SonarQube, Ruby, JavaScript

Experience

Argo CD and App of Apps Pattern Implementation

This project involved deploying Kubernetes clusters on AWS using Terraform modules. I implemented the “App of Apps” pattern with Argo CD to manage applications on the clusters using GitOps. In addition, I implemented key Kubernetes controllers to improve management and cluster security.

Certifications

JANUARY 2021 - PRESENT

Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1)

Linux Professional Institute (LPI)

JANUARY 2020 - PRESENT

Amazon Web Services SysOps Administrator – Associate

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Skills

Tools

Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, AWS CodeBuild, Artifactory, SonarQube

Paradigms

Automation

Platforms

Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Languages

Go, Ruby, JavaScript

Storage

Datadog

Other

Argo CD, Prometheus, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline

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