Felipe Rodrigues Maia, Developer in Belo Horizonte - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Felipe Rodrigues Maia

Verified Expert  in Engineering

DevOps Engineer and Developer

Belo Horizonte - State of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Toptal member since May 2, 2018

Bio

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

Whip Media
AWS, AWS, Jenkins, Identity & Access Management (IAM)...
Toptal Clients
AWS, Databricks, Apache Airflow, Spark, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, FFmpeg...
Cinnecta
Elasticsearch, Redis, Data Architecture, Agile Development, Docker...

Experience

Availability

Part-time

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

2018 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: AWS, AWS, Jenkins, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Serverless Framework, Kubernetes, Lambda Functions, New Relic, Datadog, AWS, Google Cloud Development, 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, Cloud Architecture, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Terraform, Microservices Development, NoSQL, Docker, Git, Continuous Integration (CI), Shell Scripting, Networks, Python, Data Architecture, Cloud Patterns, Visual Studio Development, Vim Text Editor, CI/CD Pipelines, Scripting, Data Migration, Database, Back-end Developers, GitHub, GitOps, Automation, SaaS, Cloud Engineering, AWS CLI, Prometheus, Nginx, Architecture, Helm, Cloudflare, Bash, Security, Serverless, AWS Security Hub, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL

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: AWS, Databricks, Apache Airflow, Spark, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis, FFmpeg, Data Architecture, Jenkins, Agile Development, Docker, Cloud Engineering, Shell Scripting, Networks, Site Reliability, JavaScript, Google Cloud Development, Linux, Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio Development, Serverless Framework, Microservices Development, Cloud Patterns, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Cloud Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Terraform, PostgreSQL, Git, Flask, AWS, MySQL, PHP, Go, Python, CircleCI, Kubernetes, Distributed Systems, REST API, Site Reliability, 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, AWS, Network Engineering, IT Security, NoSQL, Scripting, Data Migration, Database, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Back-end Developers, Video Processing, Video Streaming, GitHub, GitOps, Automation, SaaS, Cloud Engineering, AWS CLI, Apache Kafka, Nginx, Architecture, Helm, Cloudflare, Bash, Security, Serverless, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL

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, Agile Development, Docker, Cloud Engineering, Shell Scripting, Networks, Linux, Vim Text Editor, Visual Studio Development, CircleCI, Microservices Development, Cloud Patterns, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Cloud Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Terraform, Git, Flask, AWS, MySQL, Ruby, Google Cloud Development, AWS, Spark, Python, Distributed Systems, REST API, Software Architecture, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Lambda, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, AWS, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, NoSQL, Scripting, Data Migration, Database, Back-end Developers, GitHub, Automation, SaaS, Cloud Engineering, AWS CLI, Apache Kafka, Nginx, Architecture, Cloudflare, Bash, Security, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL

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: AWS, Redis, FFmpeg, Data Architecture, Jenkins, Agile Development, Docker, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability, Google Cloud Development, Linux, Vim Text Editor, Microservices Development, Cloud Patterns, Continuous Integration (CI), PostgreSQL, Git, Flask, AWS, Site Reliability, Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, REST API, DevSecOps, AWS Lambda, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Networks, Database, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Video Processing, Video Streaming, GitHub, Automation, SaaS, Cloud Engineering, Architecture, Cloudflare, Security, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL

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: AWS, Elasticsearch, FFmpeg, Data Architecture, Jenkins, Agile Development, Ansible, Docker, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability, JavaScript, Google Cloud Development, Linux, Vim Text Editor, CircleCI, Microservices Development, Cloud Patterns, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Continuous Integration (CI), PostgreSQL, Git, Flask, AWS, MySQL, Networks, Shell Scripting, Site Reliability, Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Azure, Python, Java, Distributed Systems, REST API, AWS, Terraform, New Relic, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS Lambda, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Lambda Functions, AWS, Digital Platform Development, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, NoSQL, Scripting, Data Migration, Database, Video Transcoding, Video & Audio Processing, Back-end Developers, Video Processing, Video Streaming, GitHub, GitOps, Automation, SaaS, Cloud Engineering, AWS CLI, Nginx, Architecture, Bash, Security, Serverless, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Multitenancy, Solution Architecture, Cloud Migration, SQL

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: AWS, Jenkins, Site Reliability, JavaScript, Linux, Vim Text Editor, PostgreSQL, Git, MySQL, Networks, Shell Scripting, Site Reliability, Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Tcl, C#, PHP, Python, Distributed Systems, REST API, DevSecOps, DevOps, Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, AWS, Network Engineering, IT Security, Scripting, Data Migration, Back-end Developers, GitHub, Chef, Automation, SaaS, Cloud Engineering, Nginx, Architecture, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Solution Architecture, SQL

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 API, DevSecOps, DevOps, Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, AWS, Network Engineering, IT Security, Scripting, Back-end Developers, Automation, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking, SQL

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 Development, Perl, Python, Networking, TCP/IP, OSI Model, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Scripting, Automation, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking, SQL

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 Development, Linux, Infor, Networking, TCP/IP, Network Engineering, Team Leadership, IT Security, Scripting, Automation, Bash, Security, Mail Servers, IT Networking

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.
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

OCTOBER 2023 - OCTOBER 2026

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services

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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