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Rodrigo Tavares

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Cloud Platform Engineer at Encora Inc. securing an open-source edge platform with concurrent Ansible automation.

Brazil

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At Encora Inc., I contribute to the development, maintenance, and troubleshooting of a major open-source edge computing platform as part of the security team. I developed Ansible automation for secure boot lifecycles and infrastructure updates across distributed edge nodes.

At Sidia Institute of Technology, I worked on the Samsung Retail Management System, managing AWS infrastructure and CI/CD workflows. I migrated environments to Terraform, moved CI/CD from CircleCI to GitHub Actions, and implemented OIDC authentication.

I also addressed security and reliability needs across cloud services, including mTLS termination on AWS ALB, an Elasticsearch migration from v5 to v8, and custom Datadog metrics and alerts for Couchbase clusters.

Earlier, at Roraima State University, I supported infrastructure and academic systems, including backend development for the Academic Registry System. My experience also includes Linux and Windows server administration, web development, and C# mobile app development.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Cloud Platform Engineer

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Encora Inc.

Sep 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Contribute to the daily development, maintenance, and troubleshooting of a major open-source edge computing platform, as a member of the security team.

- Developed large-scale Ansible automation to manage secure boot lifecycles and infrastructure updates, built to execute concurrently across distributed edge nodes.
- Hardened system security and enforced CIS Benchmark compliance by implementing r

Senior DevOps Engineer

Sidia Institute of Technology

Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 (3 months)

Acted as a Senior DevOps Engineer still within the Samsung Retail Management System (RMS) team.

- Managed AWS infrastructure, migrating manual environments to reproducible Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
- Engineered a custom Java integration to enable mTLS termination on AWS ALB, solving native cloud limitations to meet strict corporate security standards.
- Executed a critical mig

DevOps Engineer

Sidia Institute of Technology

Jun 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years)

Acted as a core member of the Samsung Retail Management System (RMS) team, managing global-scale AWS infrastructure and CI/CD workflows for millions of mobile devices.
- Architected and led the CI/CD migration from CircleCI to GitHub Actions, reducing build time, increasing deployment frequency, and implementing OIDC authentication.
- Administered AWS services directly (EC2, CodeDeploy, S3), imple

IT Technician

Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Roraima (IFRR)

Nov 2021 - Jun 2022 (7 months)

Management and support of IT infrastructure in the school’s campus; management of Linux and Windows
servers (including Active Directory).

Head of the Infrastructure and Systems Division

Roraima State University

Jul 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 3 months)

Oversaw the university's IT infrastructure and network operations, ensuring stability, security, and continuous monitoring of critical services.

- Administered university network infrastructure and Linux servers, monitoring and applying security policies via pfSense.
- Managed Oracle Cloud (OCI) resources and internal systems networking to ensure high availability of academic services.
- Migrated

Head of the Academic System Unit

Roraima State University

Sep 2019 - Jul 2020 (10 months)

Managed the university's core academic systems, providing continuous support and backend development for critical registry operations.
- Maintained, supported, and developed backend features for the university's core Academic Registry System using PHP and MySQL.

Web design assistant intern

Federal University of Roraima

Jun 2016 - May 2018 (1 year 11 months)

Responsible for managing the distance education websites in the university, including managing Moodle enrollment of users and support for students and teachers.

Mobile apps developer

INDT

Jun 2014 - Mar 2015 (9 months)

Along with a team of other students, I developed apps in C# for the Windows Phone platform, through the use of the Scrum agile method.

This experience was part of the Mobile Apps project, a partnership between the Federal University of Roraima (UFRR) and INDT, which, at the time, was Nokia/Microsoft’s institute of technology.