I build and run platforms. Kubernetes, AWS, and more recently agents pointed at infrastructure work. Based in Metro Vancouver.
Eighteen years on backend and distributed systems, the last nine on AWS.
For the past three years I led DevOps Engineering at Fortis Games, which I built from nothing and ran through four area leaders covering CI/CD, SRE, platform, and AI infrastructure. The team was spread across Brazil, Portugal, England and Canada. I designed the Kubernetes platform there from the ground up: networking, GitOps, autoscaling, service mesh, secrets, policy, observability, DNS and ingress. I also wrote the RFC and ADR process, the service ownership model, and the incident management model, because the architecture is only half of what makes a platform usable.
Before that I owned platform architecture, reliability and cost at Prodigy Education, on infrastructure serving around 10 million monthly users with peaks above 150,000 concurrent. Earlier roles took me through Wrapbook, ChatFood, Receptiviti and a stretch of enterprise integration work in Brazil.
What I keep coming back to is architecture that is still undecided, taken through to production and then operated. Zero-downtime migrations of live systems. Measurable work on cost, latency and throughput.
Things I spend time in: Kubernetes and EKS, Istio, ArgoCD, Karpenter, KEDA, Crossplane, Kyverno, Terraform and Terragrunt, Kafka, Go, Python, LangGraph and MCP.
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