Operator record · Porto, Portugal
Platform Engineer specializing in Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS, with 7+ years of experience building and operating production systems at scale. Strong focus on platform reliability, automation, and cost-efficient infrastructure, with experience spanning SRE, technical leadership, and developer enablement.
Working on the eBikes project.
Initiated and led the technical design of a SaaS product from concept to pre-launch, collaborating with a small cross-functional team. Designed the overall system architecture, including data model and service boundaries. Owned cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, deploying Kubernetes-based environments with FluxCD (GitOps) and GitHub Actions. Established CI/CD pipelines, environment promotion workflows, and observability from the ground up. Actively participated in product discovery and client meetings, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Core member of the central Platform Engineering team, shaping cloud infrastructure strategy across Jumia. Reduced AWS costs by $100K/month by auditing resource usage, identifying over-provisioned services and unused workloads, and streamlining the monitoring stack to eliminate redundant data ingestion and storage. Led the migration of PCI-DSS workloads from legacy EC2 + Jenkins to a modern EKS-based Kubernetes platform. Introduced and standardized GitHub Actions and ArgoCD across >150 projects, streamlining CI/CD and improving deployment reliability.
Served as technical lead for the JumiaPay SRE team, setting technical direction, priorities, and standards for reliability and platform evolution. Led the migration of backend services from two legacy Kubernetes clusters to EKS, defining the target architecture and execution plan while ensuring minimal downtime. Drove improvements in scalability, observability, and automation across payment systems supporting critical business workflows. Acted as a mentor and technical escalation point for SREs, supporting design reviews, incident response, and on-call best practices.
Operated and evolved AWS-based production infrastructure supporting JumiaPay's core payment services. Managed containerized workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm, with infrastructure defined and maintained via Terraform and Ansible. Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling, reducing manual intervention and improving deployment reliability. Played an active role in on-call rotations and incident response, diagnosing production issues and driving root-cause analysis. Collaborated closely with backend engineering teams to improve service reliability, performance, and operability.
Acted as the sole DevOps engineer in a small startup, owning infrastructure, CI/CD, and deployment processes end-to-end. Helped shape early technical decisions while balancing speed, reliability, and limited resources.
Led containerization and architectural integration across multiple projects using Docker, LXC, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), and Helm. Designed and maintained a scalable CI/CD solution with GitLab Pipelines and Kubernetes.
Developed cloud-ready solutions guaranteeing the life-cycle of application modules and services, providing modularity and scalability. Internship in the context of the PESTI course from ISEP.
Co-developed Paddle, a cross-platform native Canoeing Results app for Android and iOS, with a custom ASP.NET backend.
Took part of CDIO-IL, an MIT initiative that emphasizes engineering fundamentals through real-world projects in collaboration with companies.
Completed the full CCNA Routing and Switching curriculum, covering network fundamentals, LAN switching, routing, and WAN technologies.