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Lucas Machado 123

@lucaspmachado

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DevOps/platform engineer driving reliable, cost-aware cloud delivery with GitOps and observability.

Spain

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What I'm looking for

I seek hands-on platform or DevOps roles where I can lead GitOps, observability, and cost-optimised cloud migrations while mentoring teams.

I am a DevOps and Platform engineer with 10+ years building production systems on AWS and GCP, focused on Kubernetes, GitOps, and secure CI/CD. I design reusable deployment templates, helm charts, and ephemeral environments to speed delivery and lower costs.

I've led platform migrations, introduced ArgoCD-based GitOps, implemented IaC with Terraform and Pulumi, and built observability stacks with Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to improve SLIs/SLOs and on-call response.

I partner cross-functionally, hire and train teams, and write tooling (Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Golang, Bash) to automate releases, testing (Playwright, Cypress, k6), and secure workflows—delivering reliable, scalable, and cost-effective platforms.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

DevOps Lead

Current

Demand.io

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Led GitOps adoption on GKE/EKS with Argo CD, implemented secure CI/CD and ephemeral PR environments, and standardized Helm charts to improve deployment velocity and reliability across microservices.

Kubernetes Argo Helm GitHub Actions Terraform GCP AWS Playwright OpenTelemetry

Automation Engineer

Kea

Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 (8 months)

Improved observability and on-call processes by implementing Grafana/Loki/Tempo/OpenTelemetry stacks and synthetic monitoring, and developed Playwright E2E coverage to stabilize continuous deployments.

Grafana Loki OpenTelemetry Playwright EKS Helm GitHub Actions BASH

DevOps Engineer

Kiwify

May 2023 - Oct 2023 (5 months)

Migrated services to Cloud Run and GKE using GitOps, reduced billing by ~20%, and implemented Datadog monitoring, reusable GitHub Actions workflows, and Terraform modules for infra management.

GKE GitHub Actions Terraform Datadog Helm Golang

DevOps Lead

Andela

Jun 2022 - May 2023 (11 months)

Led migration to Terraform/GKE/ArgoCD and introduced Datadog RUM/APM and synthetics, created Jenkins shared libraries and Helm charts, and cut monthly cloud spend by over $10,000 via billing alerts and optimizations.

Terraform GKE Jenkins Datadog Kong Istio Helm CI CD

DevOps Engineer

Holonic

Oct 2021 - Jun 2022 (8 months)

Designed GCP Kubernetes deployment POCs, configured GCP projects and IAM with least-privilege principles, and supported demos and infrastructure proposals for a talent application redesign.

GCP Kubernetes Terraform IAM GitHub Actions Kong Elasticsearch CI CD

DevOps Engineer

Webjump

Feb 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 8 months)

Managed automated pipelines, ELK monitoring, IaC with CloudFormation/Terraform, and CI processes to scale tests using AWS ECS and Jenkins, improving test coverage and performance benchmarking.

ELK Terraform CloudFormation Jenkins AWS ECS Ansible Docker CI CD

Software QA Lead

Vilas Boas IT

Jun 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Led QA squads, defined automation style guides, built BDD test frameworks and Dockerized test execution pipelines, and produced KPI reports for automation segments.