I keep production boring.
I'm Miguel, a DevOps engineer in Porto. I've spent eight years building and running the platforms behind betting, fashion and travel products. Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, security, and the automation that holds it all together.
- 2018ARMIS GroupDevOps Intern / Junior Full-Stack DeveloperBuilt a fully automated CI/CD proof of concept
- 2019FarfetchDevOps EngineerScaled Azure infrastructure for a global luxury marketplace
- 2021FanDuelDevOps EngineerLed the GCP → AWS migration for the largest U.S. horse-betting platform
- nowIcligoDevOps EngineerKubernetes platform for an AI-first travel product
What I'm building
All 7 projectswtc
in progressA vendor-neutral change ledger ("git log for production"). A self-hosted Go binary that pulls change events from CI, GitOps, and manual runs into one timeline, so you can see what changed, where a commit is deployed, and how two environments differ.
pitchboard
in progressAn animated football tactics board that runs entirely in the browser. Draw a formation, move players between scenes along curved runs, and export the result as MP4, GIF, or PNG with no server rendering. Connectors between groups of players are recomputed every frame, so a unit’s shape deforms as its members move apart.
coutada
in progressA phone map for coordinating a hunt on foot. The host draws the reference points, the paths and the ground to cover on 30 cm satellite imagery, and everyone sees where they are and where to turn or wait, offline when there's no signal. During a hunt everyone sees everyone's live position, relayed through a Durable Object in the EU and never stored.
Writing
All posts- Coutada: the hunt on a mapA phone map for hunting on foot, for when the plan is to meet at a Roman bridge on a property you don't know.
- herdr-gh-actions: CI status in the same terminal as my agentsWhy I built my own GitHub Actions plugin for herdr, which gives every agent its own CI status and hands a failed build back to the agent that broke it.
- Pitchboard, a month laterAccounts, passes you can bend, a 3D view you can actually work in, a proper drawing toolkit, and a guided tour for anyone opening it for the first time.