About

I'm someone who enjoys figuring things out and learning along the way. I like working with people and doing my part to keep things running smoothly.

When I'm not working, I keep busy with a mix of hobbies. I play guitar, football and videogames, ride my motorcycle, hang out with my cat, and hit the gym to relax and recharge. I'm a big football fan, and even coached a U10/11 academy team.

Professionally, I love the DevOps and infrastructure side of IT. It lets me do what I enjoy most: automating and organising things.

Experience

  1. 2026 – PresentPorto, PT

    Icligo

    current

    DevOps Engineer

    • Building infrastructure for an AI-first travel platform covering accommodation, flights, and trip planning
    • Designing and operating a microservice architecture on Kubernetes for scalability and independent service delivery
    • Working with AI agents and AI-assisted tooling across development and day-to-day operations
    • Establishing CI/CD pipelines and observability foundations for the new platform
    • Embedding security into CI/CD with automated scanning, SBOMs, and signed container images
  2. 2021 – 2026Porto, PT

    FanDuel

    DevOps Engineer

    • Ran infrastructure for the largest online horse-betting platform in the U.S., serving millions of high-traffic users daily
    • Led the platform's full migration from GCP to AWS across multiple Kubernetes clusters for global scale and resilience
    • Built a monitoring stack from scratch (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos) for distributed clusters at scale
    • Designed a GitOps CI/CD pipeline with ArgoCD and Buildkite for consistent, auditable deployments
    • Centralised secrets with HashiCorp Vault and standardised provisioning via Terraform, Ansible, and Packer
    • Authored a disaster-recovery playbook covering all infrastructure components
  3. 2019 – 2021Porto, PT

    Farfetch

    DevOps Engineer

    • Supported and scaled infrastructure for a global luxury-fashion marketplace serving millions of users
    • Automated large-scale deployments on Azure with Terraform and Docker
    • Streamlined release pipelines with Jenkins and improved observability with New Relic
    • Maintained asynchronous messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and standardised configuration with Salt and Chef
  4. 2018 – 2019Porto, PT

    ARMIS Group

    DevOps Intern / Junior Full-Stack Developer

    • Built a CI/CD proof-of-concept that delivered fully automated builds and deployments
    • Developed full-stack features (frontend, backend APIs, and database design) for a real-time road-incident platform

Education

  1. 2015 – 2018Porto, PT

    Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)

    BSc Computer Engineering

    • Specialised in software engineering, algorithms, databases, and web development
    • Built a sports-venue booking platform over two semesters with ARMIS Group using Scrum, JIRA, and bi-weekly client sprint reviews
    • Took part in an MIT-led program applying engineering fundamentals to real-world industry projects