Specialist Platform Engineer @ WEX Inc — Portland, ME (Remote from Brazil)

Architecting globally distributed API Gateway solutions (Apigee X) with 99.999% availability for mission-critical payment systems. Leading infrastructure modernization for PCI-DSS 4.0 compliance and building custom Terraform providers in Go to accelerate developer onboarding.

Platform Engineering & Cloud Infrastructure

• Kubernetes orchestration across AWS EKS & GCP GKE with Istio service mesh
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, ArgoCD, GitOps workflows
• API Gateway: Google Cloud Apigee X, Active-Active global distribution
• Custom tooling: Built Terraform Provider from scratch using Go

DevSecOps & Observability

• CI/CD pipeline optimization for zero-downtime deployments
• "Dashboards as Code" with Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry
• Blue/Green deployment strategies for PCI-DSS regulated environments
• Security automation & compliance tooling

Software Architecture

• Microservices design patterns for Fintech ecosystems
• Event-driven architectures with high scalability
• API design, documentation, and developer experience optimization
• Domain-Driven Design & system architecture at enterprise scale

• Machine Learning Specialization — Stanford University (2021)
• Bachelor's in Computer Engineering — Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG)
• Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA) — CNCF
• Certified Linux Administrator (LPIC-1) — LPI

Portuguese (Native) • English (Fluent) • Spanish (Intermediate) • Italian (Elementary)

• 12+ years of software engineering and platform innovation
• Architected Active-Active API Gateway serving millions of payment transactions
• Reduced developer onboarding time by 60% through custom automation tools
• Led cloud migration projects optimizing infrastructure costs by 15%+
• Published 5+ academic papers on open science, data repositories, and research infrastructure