Lucas Lima
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
As a DevOps and cloud engineer, Lucas has worked with startups in the exponential growth phase and multi-million dollar revenue companies. From setting up CI/CD flows from scratch, developing tooling for developers, and executing successful migrations to Kubernetes, his experiences have forged an engineer with a perspective on the solution as a whole while thorough on the execution.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Zoom, Slack, IntelliJ IDEA
The most amazing...
...feat: infrastructure implementation of an entire startup from scratch—from setting up CI/CD pipelines to pitching and migrating all services to Kubernetes.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
Mendix
- Created a multi-region infrastructure layout for deploying platforms consistently and uniformly using Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Documented obscure aspects of the company infrastructure, making it easier to onboard new members and share knowledge.
- Improved the scrum ceremonies to produce more explicit and easier to split stories to allow the team to work more efficiently.
Cloud Engineer
Fanatics
- Implemented the Istio integration with an in-house deployment tool.
- Worked on the company migration from multiple VPC peerings to using an AWS Transit Gateway.
- Provided guidance on best practices for Kubernetes deployments.
Software Engineer
Avenue Code
- Implemented the first Kubernetes clusters used in production for the client over an on-premise infrastructure from scratch.
- Implemented a deployment solution to replace unmaintained continuum deployments with simpler and more reliable GitLab CI pipelines using Ansible.
- Implemented a self-service Kubernetes cluster creation solution for on-premise infrastructure.
DevOps Supervisor
Stilingue
- Implemented on-demand test environment creation for developers to test their work over OpenShift based on entirely self-service branches.
- Pitched, proposed, and implemented the company's migration to OpenShift as a platform, making deployments simpler and more reliable.
- Created the first configuration implementation as code for configuring on-premise VMS in the company using Chef.
- Implemented the first deployment automation for the company using Chef over heterogeneous environments and configuration requirements.
- Implemented the first CI pipelines for the company using Jenkins.
Experience
Environment Creation on Demand Using OpenShift
Multiregional Cluster Setup with Terraform
Replacing Deployments to a Lightweight Solution Using GitLab CI and Ansible
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Federal University of Ouro Preto - Ouro Preto, Brazil
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Linux Foundation
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
Linux Foundation
Skills
Paradigms
DevOps
Platforms
Kubernetes, Linux, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenShift, Mendix
Languages
Bash, Python, Go
Tools
Istio, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Terraform, Chef, Ansible, IntelliJ IDEA, Amazon EKS, Envoy Proxy, Vault, Helm
Storage
Google Cloud
Other
Consul, Software Engineering
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