Alexandre (Manhaes) Savio
Cloud Engineer
Experience
Cloud Engineer
Dectris AG
- Build a scalable multi-region backend service in AWS to serve remote desktop virtual machines for scientific analysis
- Stack: AWS, GitHub, Terraform, Python, Rust
- Built and defined the core infrastructure of the backend system
- Defined and coded the virtual machines provisioning supporting Ubuntu and Rocky Linux desktop setups
- Programmed the API service running in ECS to manage virtual machines and build custom Docker images for users
Cloud Architect
Königsweg GmbH
- Build the cloud infrastructure for a data extraction, processing, and machine learning training and inference backend
- Stack: Azure, Azure DevOps, Terraform
MLOps and Cloud Engineer
Bayer AG
- Run and improve the MLOps services and support AI scientists and application developers with AI systems
- Stack: AWS, GitLab, Terraform, Serverless, Python
- Increased test coverage of the AI model inferencing pipeline from 60% to 85%
- Made the pipeline more efficient by adding a model results cache using DynamoDB
- Migrated the inference pipeline to a Step Function to improve observability
- Wrote load tests to analyze issues and average inferencing round-trip time
- Migrated 60 out of 100 repositories from GitLab to GitHub including complex CI/CD pipelines via an Ansible automation, reducing migration time by half
Senior Data Engineer
KONUX GmbH
- Build a real-time data pipeline based on PySpark to process UK Railways network data to create a digital twin
- Stack: AWS, Bitbucket, PySpark, Glue
- Implemented transformation of raw incomplete UK Railways data into a sensible time series and connected it with the rest of the pipeline
- Increased test coverage of the whole pipeline from 30% to 80%
- Supported other team members with PySpark
CTO
ZeroBang OÜ
- Develop a web application to help small and mid-size companies automate their account receivables and payables
- In charge of cloud infrastructure and backend
- Implemented a fully automated CI/CD pipeline to deploy the application on Cloudflare, AWS, and GCP using Pulumi
- Wrote automated UI end-to-end tests based on Cucumber, TypeScript, and Playwright, increasing release confidence
Senior Data Solution Architect
Klarna
- Build an alerting tool for failures in customer integrations of the Klarna payment service, sending alerts to Slack via a statistical model running on Rockset
- Stack: AWS, AWS CDK, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Python, Kafka, Rockset
- Implemented the asynchronous backend running queries against Rockset to detect anomalies and send alerts
- Delivered a working system in less than four months
- Two alerts saved a large customer an estimated more than €1 million in one day
Senior Data Engineer
Personio
- Build serverless data pipelines in the cloud to aggregate data from different third-party providers for business reporting
- Stack: AWS, GitLab, Python, Lambda, Glue, Athena
- Migrated many manually deployed Lambdas into Terraform and added automated tests
Senior Data Solution Architect
CARIAD
- Develop a global solution to ingest, manage, and serve points of interest for car chargers
- Stack: AWS, Airflow, Python, microservices
- Improved code quality of data extraction pipelines and added new features
- Refactored large parts of the system to increase reliability and testability, raising test coverage by more than 20%
Cloud Applications/Data Engineering Team Lead
Nordcloud GmbH
- Manage project staffing, team management, personal development processes, and knowledge sharing
- Lead pre-sales and wrote cloud solution project proposals
- Implement REST API in Go, Elasticsearch data ETL for reporting and analytics, and cloud infrastructure with AWS CDK
Cloud Applications Developer
Nordcloud GmbH
- Technical lead for Continental project: built a data ingestion system for factory production data in Python based on AWS Step Functions
- Ingested data into AWS Redshift and S3 and handled XML data using XSLT
- Developed an internal product for automation of image hardening for EC2 and ECS
Engineer, Software Defined Inverter
Siemens Corporate Technology
- Develop RESTful API with test-driven development for an IoT project
- Build IoT tooling for production and cloud infrastructure in AWS using Python and Terraform
- Increased test coverage of the core API to 90%
- Reduced deployment time from five hours of manual work to fully automated 45 minutes
IT Architect
MaibornWolff GmbH
- BMW Log-Analyzer: provision six large clusters in three regions using Ansible, Python, Kafka, ELK stack; implemented cluster setup and monitoring scripts
- BMW Augmented Reality Tracking: led C++ development for robotic arm control system, sensor mathematics, software testing setup, and target provisioning via Ansible
Summary
I hold a PhD in Information Engineering and I have more than 15 years of experience implementing solutions mainly in Python, C++, and Java. I developed machine learning and data processing pipelines for medical imaging. Now I am a freelancer, team lead, and cloud solutions engineer helping companies migrate and develop data solutions in different cloud providers. I am also very active in the Python community and a Software Carpentry instructor.
Skills
System Tools
- Git
- Docker
- Kafka
- Ansible
Cloud
- Aws
- Gcp
- Aws Cdk
- Terraform
- Serverless
- Pulumi
Programming
- Python
- C++
- Java
- Bash
- Rust
Languages
Education
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
PhD in Information Engineering, Computational Intelligence Group (GIC) · Information Engineering · Spain
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
BSc and MSc in Information Engineering · Information Engineering · Spain
Certifications & licenses
AWS Cloud Developer Associate
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