# Leonardo Benedet

Leonardo Benedet is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Database Reliability Engineer at ContaAzul, based in Brazil.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@leonardobenedet

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I build reliable, zero-downtime PostgreSQL platforms for mission-critical financial systems.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Open to opportunities |
| Location | Brazil |
| Authorized to work in | Brazil |
| Salary expectations | 31k+ USD |
| Job categories | Database Reliability Engineer, Developer Experience Engineer, Software Engineer, Frontend Engineer |
| Skills | PostgreSQL, Database Reliability Engineering, Database Migration, Partitioning, Data Replication, Autovacuum Tuning, AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DMS, Kafka, AWS MSK (Kafka), Debezium, Strimzi, Change Data Capture, GitOps, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, HashiCorp Vault, AWS, Jenkins, Linux, CI CD, Go, Rust, TypeScript, BASH, Local LLMs, AI Agents, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Datadog, FinOps, Incident Response, PG Bouncer, PgCat, Infrastructure as Code, Open Source |
| Portfolio | https://github.com/dog-hero/pg_lens |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/leonardo-benedet-88680927 |

## What I'm looking for

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I'm looking to build reliable, automated database and platform systems in a remote, asynchronous environment, with strong open-source practices, rigorous architectural trade-offs, and opportunities to solve complex operational bottlenecks.
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## About

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At ContaAzul, I stabilize and modernize mission-critical PostgreSQL infrastructure for a financial ERP platform. I migrated approximately 150 PostgreSQL instances from AWS RDS to Aurora PostgreSQL with zero downtime and built the observability foundation using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager.

I design database platforms that make reliability an automated practice: partitioning billion-row tables, GitOps-driven CDC meshes, Terraform modules, and compliant backup policies. I also created Go tooling for lock-free index creation, data migrations, and automated PostgreSQL privilege management.

My background spans frontend engineering, developer experience, and database reliability, giving me a practical understanding of the full software lifecycle. I contribute to the PostgreSQL community through pg_lens, a terminal-based monitoring and observability tool.
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## Experience

### Senior Database Reliability Engineer (current)

ContaAzul. Jul 2023 - Present

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Stabilized and modernized the database ecosystem, executing zero-downtime migrations of 150 PostgreSQL instances to Aurora, implementing FinOps strategies, and building observability and event-driven architectures.
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Skills: PostgreSQL, AWS-Aurora, AWS-RDS, AWS-DMS, Terraform, Kafka, Debezium, Strimzi, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Go, FinOps, Incident-Response, PG-Bouncer, PgCat

### Developer Experience (DevEx) Engineer

ContaAzul. Mar 2022 - Jul 2023

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Bridged infrastructure and software engineering, optimizing developer workflows and internal tooling, and initiated a DevEx project that led to the DBRE role.
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Skills: Developer-Experience, Internal-Tooling, Workflow-Optimization

### Frontend / Software Engineer

ContaAzul. Feb 2018 - Mar 2022

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Developed scalable and responsive user interfaces for the core ContaAzul ERP platform, gaining deep understanding of product architecture and software development lifecycle.
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Skills: Frontend-Development, Software-Engineering, ERP, User-Interface

## Tech stack

- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Jenkins
- Debezium
- PostgreSQL
- Terraform
- JavaScript
- Go
- Rust
- Kafka
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Linux
- Datadog
- TypeScript
- Docker
- Bash
- Strimzi

To contact Leonardo, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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