Sergio Francisco

4 Elements Music, a music platform, hired me to revamp their infrastructure using AWS ECS and Fargate to containerize a Python/Django application on AWS.

The old system lacked scalability and performance. The solution involved containerizing the app with Docker, building a new platform with Terraform, deploying secure networking with VPC, and automating software delivery with CI/CD.

This boosted efficiency and security and laid a solid foundation for the new platform's launch.

CoinList modernized its infrastructure by migrating six Ruby on Rails applications from EC2 to AWS ECS Fargate, using Docker for containerization, Terraform for IaC, and GitHub Actions for CI/CD. This significantly reduced costs, improved scalability, and accelerated deployment processes. The new platform is more resilient and efficient, allowing CoinList to handle traffic spikes during token sales and streamline operations.

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Web3 Pro, a leading Web3 B2B SaaS platform, faced challenges managing its expanding AWS environment.

To address this, they sought to implement AWS Control Tower and Landing Zones to establish a robust account strategy and enhance security and compliance.

I helped Web3 Pro by conducting a security assessment, designing the AWS Landing Zone, configuring the AWS Control Tower, enrolling existing accounts, and providing training and documentation.

By successfully implementing these solutions, Web3 Pro achieved significant benefits such as enhanced security, improved governance, optimized costs, accelerated innovation, increased scalability, enhanced compliance, competitive advantage, and improved business outcomes.

TeleTracking, a healthcare software company, faced challenges with its Azure infrastructure, including high costs, operational complexity, and scalability limitations. To address these issues, we partnered with them to migrate these workloads to AWS.

I conducted a thorough assessment, developed a TCO, and designed a robust network architecture to optimize their AWS environment. This resulted in significant cost savings, improved operational efficiency, enhanced scalability, and accelerated innovation.

My expertise and AWS's capabilities enabled me to deliver a successful part of the project in just one month, exceeding the client's expectations.

Whatnot sought to enhance its recommendation engine's MLOps capabilities by migrating from SpellML to Amazon SageMaker.

Key challenges included scalability, flexibility, and MLOps maturity. The solution involved designing a scalable infrastructure using SageMaker's managed services, creating efficient training pipelines, deploying models as real-time endpoints, and integrating with MLOps tools.

The successful migration enhanced scalability, accelerated development, improved MLOps maturity, and cost optimization.

Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), a company specializing in math education, sought to modernize its infrastructure to support growth and improve customer experience.

The solution involved migrating to AWS, specifically using ECS and Fargate for container orchestration. This allowed AoPS to focus on application development and improve scalability, reliability, and security.

The project successfully modernized the infrastructure, streamlined customer transitions, and increased operational efficiency, positioning AoPS for future growth and innovation.

EVgo, a leading EV charging network, aimed to migrate three applications from Rackspace to AWS to consolidate workloads and reduce costs. The challenge was to containerize the applications, deploy them on EKS and S3 + CloudFront, and automate the process with minimal downtime.

I conducted a thorough discovery to understand dependencies, then opted for a re-platforming strategy. I improved Dockerfiles, built CI/CD pipelines with Bitbucket Pipelines, configured Kubernetes objects, and migrated traffic during a scheduled maintenance window.

The successful migration resulted in a consolidated AWS environment, reduced infrastructure costs, and improved scalability, reliability, and security. CI/CD automation also significantly enhanced operational efficiency.

The client, a Brazilian fintech company, wanted to modernize their infrastructure to host a set of microservices consumed by their public-facing applications.

As the architect, I reviewed, designed, and implemented a scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS, using Terraform as the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool. Additionally, I developed CI/CD pipelines that allowed the client's developers to push changes to the production environment more frequently.

This solution reduced the client's operational costs and increased code deployment frequency by enabling developers to change the code in each environment without requiring an operations person to do it manually.

The client, a Brazilian fintech company, wanted to implement a CI/CD pipeline to allow their developer's team to deploy their code automatically using a GitOps approach.

As the architect, I designed, developed, and implemented a CI/CD pipeline that allowed the client's developers to build the code of their Angular front-end projects and frequently push changes to the production environment running on S3 + AWS CloudFront.

This solution reduced the client's operational costs and increased code deployment frequency by enabling developers to change the code in each environment without requiring an operations person to do it manually.

The client, a Brazilian fintech company, wanted to migrate their infrastructure from an on-premises data center (TIVIT) to a public cloud provider (AWS) using the re-platform migration technique.

As the architect, I first evaluated the technical and financial aspects of several cloud vendors and ultimately chose AWS as the platform. Next, I reviewed their entire legacy infrastructure, designed a multi-account/region/VPC architecture, and collaborated with the engineering team to migrate a set of systems that processed millions of financial transactions daily.

This migration brought order to the client's infrastructure architecture and operations, previously in a state of chaos. As a result of this project, I received an invitation from AWS and Claranet, an AWS partner, to present the migration case at AWS Summit Sao Paulo 2017.