Felipe Rodrigues Maia
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Belo Horizonte - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Toptal member since May 2, 2018
Felipe has over 20 years of experience in various areas of IT. He's honed his development skills, site reliability engineering, and DevOps capabilities by architecting, designing, and developing simple solutions for big data systems, media streaming, and sundry other commercial projects. Felipe has also acted as the technical lead for many development and infrastructure teams.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
CI/CD Pipelines, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Python, Go, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Azure Databricks, Platform Engineering
The most amazing...
...thing I've worked on was architecting and building services to scale and secure big data and media-streaming systems.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Whip Media
- Oversaw security, reliability, cost optimizations, performance, and cloud operations efficiency.
- Implemented best practices for efficient, cost-effective cloud solutions, achieving a 46% reduction in company cloud costs as a cloud architect.
- Mitigated risks with pre/post-mortem procedures, debugged and resolved issues from networking to source code, and ensured app reliability for millions of users as a site reliability engineer.
- Led platform engineering and DevOps, automating infrastructure to reduce operational costs and enhance tech team efficiency.
- Developed platform toolchains, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure as code for multiple AWS accounts, standardizing CI/CD for over 300 projects.
- Created data pipelines for collecting, ingesting, analyzing, training, and migrating data across databases and lakehouses in data engineering/MLOps.
DevOps | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Software Architect
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).
Data Architect Consultant
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.
Head of Engineering
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.
Software Architect | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
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.
Full-stack Software Engineer | DevOps | Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
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.
Software Engineer | Full-stack Developer
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++.
Systems Administrator
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.
IT Technician
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.
Experience
GitHub | Simple Scripts to Aid Site Reliability Engineers
https://github.com/frmaia/uscriptsGitHub | Sample Project in Java and Spring Boot
https://github.com/frmaia/api-statsGitHub | Sample Project in Python, Flask, and Docker Compose
https://github.com/frmaia/nextbus-api-extensionEducation
Specialist's Degree in Computer Software Engineering
UFMG | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Bachelor's Degree in Systems Analysis and Development (Computer Science)
Centro Universitario Anhanguera | Fabrai - Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST API, FFmpeg
Tools
Git, Apache Airflow, Terraform, Amazon EKS, GitHub, AWS CLI, Nginx, Vim Text Editor, CircleCI, Jenkins, AWS, Ansible, Makefile, Istio, Helm, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Apache, AWS, Chef
Languages
SQL, Go, Python, Java, Bash, PHP, C#, Tcl, Perl, C++, Ruby, JavaScript, Bash Script
Paradigms
Agile Development, Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, DevOps, Automation, Microservices Development
Platforms
Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, AWS Lambda, Windows Development, Linux, Visual Studio Development, Databricks, Cloud Engineering, New Relic, Azure, AWS, Amazon, Apache Kafka
Storage
MySQL, Database, Memcached, Elasticsearch, AWS, NoSQL, Datadog, Google Cloud Development, Redis, PostgreSQL
Frameworks
Spark, Serverless Framework, Flask, Spring
Other
Cloud Architecture, Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Site Reliability, Cloud Patterns, CI/CD Pipelines, Digital Platform Development, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Back-end Developers, Video Processing, Video Streaming, Cloud Monitoring, SaaS, Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Serverless, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, Site Reliability, Networks, 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, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Lambda Functions, Azure Databricks, Engineering Software, Computer Science, Algorithms, Infor, Prometheus, Platform Engineering
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