Cesar Schneider - Lead Cloud Engineer

Moosburg, Germany

Experience

Aug 2023 - Mar 2024

8 months

Munich, Germany

Lead Cloud Engineer

Charge-V GmbH

Responsible for setting up and configure AWS Organizations and Control Tower on company's master organizational account.
Administer and maintain various AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.
Monitor system performance, availability, and capacity planning to ensure scalability and reliability.
Implement and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform.
Work closely with development and operations teams to automate deployment processes using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
Develop and maintain scripts for automating routine tasks and infrastructure provisioning.
Implement automation for monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure timely incident response.
Implement and enforce security company guidelines and best practices for AWS environments.
Configure and manage AWS security services such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS WAF, AWS Shield, etc.
Collaborate with the Security Team to improve and update security policies and posture.
Collaborate with development teams to provide agile deployments and optimize application performance and reliability on AWS.
Provide technical support and guidance to internal teams on AWS-related issues and best practices.
Participate in cross-functional projects to enhance overall infrastructure and operational efficiency.

Apr 2023 - Jul 2023

4 months

Senior DevOps Engineer

BetterUp (MindSource customer)

Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure on AWS for our Ruby on Rails applications.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines on Github to automate the deployment process and ensure smooth delivery of software updates.
Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement best practices.
Actively worked on the migration of existing systems from Heroku to AWS, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.
Monitor system health, performance, and security, and implement proactive measures to maintain optimal operations.
Implement infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate provisioning and configuration management.
Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in DevOps and cloud computing.
Configured various services on Kubernetes cluster (EKS) integrated with Terraform Cloud for automated deployments.

Dec 2022 - Mar 2023

4 months

Munich, Germany

Technical Account Manager

Amazon Web Services

Ensure AWS environments remain operationally healthy whilst reducing cost and complexity.
Develop trusting relationships with customers, understanding their business needs and technical challenges.
Using technical acumen and customer obsession, I drive technical discussions regarding incidents, trade-offs, and risk management.
Consult with a range of partners from developers through to C-suite executives.
Collaborate with AWS Solutions Architects, Business Developers, Professional Services Consultants, and Sales Account Managers.
With a bias for action, I proactively find opportunities for customers to gain additional value from AWS.
Solve a variety of problems across different customers as they migrate their workloads.

Mar 2021 - Sep 2022

1 year 7 months

Munich, Germany

Application Architect Specialist

Accenture GmbH

Development of cloud-based services using Node.js, Python, Java, C# and Rust.
Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline and Terraform configuration and setup.
Data analysis and modeling for various projects, ETL process definition, data architecture design and implementation.
Cloud services configuration using AWS, GCP and Azure cloud providers.
Technical architecture design and documentation, presentation to clients.
Technical training and coaching junior developers.
Articles publications on Medium about medical devices and Industrial IoT.
Proof of Concept project based on Polygon network to store and share medical data using patient mobile phone.
Planned the redesign of Ruby on Rails workload and managed the migration from Heroku to AWS.

Sep 2019 - Feb 2021

1 year 6 months

Munich, Germany

Lead Software Architect

Inveox GmbH

Development of services and APIs using Node.js, Python, Redis.
Development of solution for object detection using OpenCV.
Daily code deployments using CI/CD tool (Bitbucket Pipelines).
Integration between web based UI (HTML/Jquery) with backend services.
Research and development of camera environment for medical imaging.
Specification and documentation of development processes based on International Standard IEC 62304 (Medical device software).
Kafka producer/consumer integration between medical device systems and cloud environment.

Jul 2018 - Dec 2019

6 months

Curitiba, Brazil

Senior IoT Software Architect

Bematech

Developed services and APIs using Node.js, Python, Redis, OpenCV.
Created a custom Raspbian OS disk image using LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup).
Modified initramfs scripts to encrypt root file system using hardware-based key at boot process.
Developed integration with S3, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, API Gateway, CloudFormation, Lambda, IoT Core, SQS and Rekognition services to acquire, upload and process camera images using AWS SDK.
Developed API and backend services using Serverless framework and TDD approach (Mocha/Chai).
Daily code deployments using CI/CD tool (Bitbucket Pipelines).

Jan 2018 - Jun 2018

6 months

Curitiba, Brazil

Hardware Engineer

Wilson Care

Hardware prototyping using RaspberryPi, OrangePi and ESP8266 boards.
Software development to integrate sensors with cloud app.
API development using MongoDB, Python and Node.js.
Backend integration with AWS Polly for text-to-speech translation.
Linux distribution customization to run all services on encrypted environment.

Jan 2016 - Dec 2017

1 year

Curitiba, Brazil

Co-founder / CTO

Fractal IoT

Software architecture and development of a cloud-based IoT platform.
Integration with AWS services and industrial devices using LoRa technology and ESP8266 modules.
Radio propagation R&D using HopeHF modules and EveryNet gateways.
Mobile application development using ReactJS, Node.js, MySQL and DynamoDB.

Jan 2015 - Dec 2016

2 years

Santiago, Chile

Lead Software Architect

Zoe Slots

Planning and execution of Linux servers architecture, disk encryption (using LUKS) and service orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
Customized Linux Ubuntu distribution including security enhancements.
MySQL database optimization for fast SQL responses from game machines.
Configuration and management of AWS services/instances (EC2, S3, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, API Gateway, Lambda, SQS).
Created and developed Game and Data APIs using Node.js and Redis.
Unit testing automation with Pytest for build and packaging services.
AWS Kinesis pipelines setup for real-time data processing.

Jan 2013 - Jun 2014

1 year 6 months

United States

Co-founder / CTO

Road Apps

Development teammanagement, technical strategic partnerships.
Independent Software Vendor (ISV) testing and validation of vehicle tracking systems integration running at Java and Tomcat environment.
SaaS architecture design using AWS services and Salesforce APIs.
R&D activities to solve complex logistics situations related to vehicle routing problems (VRP).
Presentation of company services and products at Dreamforce 2013 (San Francisco, CA).
Linux servers administration running on AWS EC2 instances.

Jul 2012 - Dec 2013

6 months

Santiago, Chile

Senior Software Engineer

Buho Games

Software development to integrate slot machines information over network.
Developed slot machines administration UI using Qt4 and C++.
Data integration and replication across multiple locations.
Administration website using CakePHP and MySQL database.
Linux server administration running at AWS EC2.

Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

1 year

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

On-site

Senior Software Engineer

CPEEC

System architecture design and development of construction site data management tool using custom reports built in SQL Report Server.
Developed integration with MapGuide Enterprise to show construction site information to project managers using CakePHP and MS SQL Server.
IT support to company employees.

Jan 2007 - Dec 2009

3 years

Los Angeles, United States

Lead Software Engineer

DBurns Design

Responsible for system analysis, planning and execution of customer’s projects.
Development teammanagement and hiring.
R&D of newWeb technologies and software development best practices.
Lead developer of special projects using PHP, MySQL and Linux.
Created and applied development process and documentation standards.

Jun 2003 - Present

22 years 2 months

Estonia

Founder & CTO

Eworks Labs

Provide consulting services as Cloud Solutions Architect.
Software development in Node.js, Python, Golang, Rust, C++.
Hardware prototyping using RaspberryPi, ESP8266, AVR and STM32 microcontrollers.
R&D of IoT products and services using Google Assistant and Alexa SDK.
Chatbot development using Meetup Stream and Facebook Send API.
Ethereum Smart Contract development using Solidity.
Crypto wallet integration on top of Ethereum network using Web3.js.
Integration of smart contracts using Chainlink API.