Diego Fernando Luisi
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Developer
Lisbon, Portugal
Toptal member since November 26, 2024
Diego is a dedicated advocate of the DevOps culture, specializing in open source technologies and automation. With two decades of experience as a system administrator and currently serving as a site reliability engineer (SRE), he remains committed to enhancing his professional skills through continuous learning of innovative technologies and methodologies. Diego is keenly interested in open source initiatives, particularly projects related to Linux, CNCF, GitOps, and various tools.
Portfolio
Experience
- GitHub - 10 years
- Terraform - 8 years
- Istio - 6 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- Kubernetes - 6 years
- Linux - 6 years
- Prometheus - 5 years
- Docker - 4 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Prometheus, Kubernetes, Crossplane, Argo CD, Istio, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The most amazing...
...thing I've done involved creating a DevEx portal using Backstage and automating application creation, reducing the time from two weeks to 10 minutes.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Shield Financial Compliance
- Acted as a DevOps engineer specializing in cloud environments and automated infrastructure with tools like Terraform, Terragrunt, Argo CD, and Helm.
- Collaborated with teams to optimize deployment pipelines and architecture scalability.
- Deployed advanced Kubernetes features like Istio, Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaler (KEDA), and Karpenter for service mesh capabilities and workload optimization.
- Monitored with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry to ensure system performance and reliability.
- Enhanced and maintained robust, resilient, and scalable environments in AWS and Azure, effectively meeting the organization's evolving requirements.
SRE | Tech Lead
Evolution Gaming
- Oversaw environment management on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), ensuring reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
- Employed automation tools like Argo CD, Crossplane, and Helm to orchestrate seamless bootstrap of new clusters and environments, enabling rapid deployment and consistent infrastructure configuration.
- Prioritized observability by implementing monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana to proactively facilitate early detection and resolution of issues.
- Oversaw our internal developer platform, Backstage, facilitated collaboration, and enhanced developer productivity.
- Headed strategic optimization efforts and continuously improved GCP environments to align with organizational performance and reliability standards.
SRE | Platform Engineer | Tech Lead
Dafiti Group
- Served as the technical lead of DevXP squad and cultivated a culture of excellence and innovation while championing the adoption of optimal development practices.
- Orchestrated streamlined workflows and ensured adherence to standards using AlertManager, ArgoCD, CircleCI, and GitHub.
- Leveraged Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm to facilitate efficient infrastructure provisioning and management, empowering the team to deliver quality solutions rapidly.
- Championed observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki for proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Provided strategic guidance and mentorship to cultivate a collaborative environment where team members thrived and actively contributed to project success.
DevOps Specialist | Tech Lead
C&A Brazil
- Served as a DevOps specialist and tech lead. Headed the modernization efforts for applications and infrastructure, transforming legacy systems into scalable microservices architectures.
- Utilized Docker, OpenShift, and Kubernetes to embrace containerization to improve portability and scalability. Employed automation tools like GitLab CI and Puppet to streamline deployment pipelines.
- Employed ELK stack components for centralized logging and monitoring, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, to ensure robust observability.
- Optimized infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Vagrant, orchestrating seamless transitions to cloud environments.
- Modernized our technology stack by meticulously planning and executing, enabling the organization to deliver innovative solutions with enhanced agility and reliability.
Experience
GitOps Framework for Kubernetes
https://github.com/devxp-tech/gitopsKEY FEATURES
• Declarative configurations. It includes centralized configuration management for Kubernetes clusters that are stored in Git for version control and collaboration.
• GitOps principles. It automates deployments and reconciliations by syncing changes from the Git repository to the Kubernetes environment.
• Argo CD integration. I implemented the continuous delivery tool that enables monitoring and self-healing capabilities for Kubernetes resources.
• Scalability. It supports multiple environments, including development, staging, and production, with reusable and environment-specific manifests.
• Customization. It includes templates and configurations for integrating common tools and applications into the cluster.
Education
Technical Diploma in Computer Networks
Nove de Julho University - São Paulo, Brazil
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems
University of Western São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil
Certifications
CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation
PCA: Prometheus Certified Associate
The Linux Foundation
GitOps Enterprise
Codefresh
HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (002)
HashiCorp
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate (003)
HashiCorp
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
GitOps at Scale
Codefresh
GitOps Fundamentals
Codefresh
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Tools
Amazon EKS, Terraform, Puppet, Istio, CircleCI, GitHub, Helm, Grafana, Loki, ELK (Elastic Stack), Kibana, Kustomize, Vault, HashiCorp Vault
Platforms
Kubernetes, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), OpenShift, OCI Vault
Languages
Go, Python
Frameworks
Backstage, Crossplane
Storage
Elasticsearch
Other
IT Networking, Prometheus, Argo CD, Karpenter, Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaler (KEDA), Software Development, Alertmanager, Terraform Cloud, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Argo, Argo Rollouts, GitOps, Progressive Delivery, Application Sets
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