Ricardo Bernardino

Site Reliability Engineer at a SaaS startup

Amadora

About

In the last 6 years I pursued cloud efficiency culminating in dramatic cost reductions and enhanced system stability. Implementing strategic initiatives, like right-sizing computing services, revising data retention policies, and selective shutdowns, has significantly reduced cloud consumption, without compromising operational excellence. During that time, by improving processes and using tools like Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible, accomplished zero-downtime deployments, slashed the release process duration from hours to minutes, and virtually eliminated planned and unplanned downtime.

Education

Instituto Superior Técnico

Student in Master Degree, Computer Science and Engineering / July, 2013

Instituto Superior Técnico

Graduate, Information Systems and Computer Engineering / January, 2013

Escola Secundária da Sertã

Secondary School / July, 2004

Experience

Codacy

Site Reliability Engineer / October, 2024 — Present

Convenient Skills

Managing Partner / September, 2023 — Present

Managing partner; Cloud Cost Optimization; Microconsulting; Freelancer.

Alpega Group

DevOps Lead / January, 2022 — September, 2024

Responsibilities: • Managing the DevOps team and a multi-cloud infrastructure • Protect the infrastructure from unauthorized changes and ensure its robustness and stability • Incident coordination with Support • Delivering each release with the Engineering Manager, ensuring the controls and pre-requisites have been satisfied • Leading the continuous improvement track for the Deployment and Release processes • Still also a DevOps Engineer, using platforms and tools like Jenkins, Nagios, WebLogic, Terraform, and Ansible. Achievements: • Reduced Oracle Cloud and AWS consumption by 60% and 27%, with right-sizing computing services, data retention policies, and weekend shutdowns of the non-production environments. • Reduced monthly unplanned downtime from 3.7 to 0.1 hours and average recovery time from 84 minutes to 4, with better infrastructure, monitoring, and on-call processes. • Reduced average planned downtime from 25 minutes to 0, with zero downtime deployment and maintenance.

DevOps Engineer / September, 2018 — December, 2021

Responsibilities: • Managing an on-premises and multi-cloud infrastructure for a global logistics SaaS company, using platforms and tools like Jenkins, Nagios, WebLogic, Terraform, and Ansible. Achievements: • Reduced deployment duration from 5-15 to 2 hours and average planned downtime from 2 to 0.5 hours, with automation and process improvements. • Reduced Oracle Cloud consumption by 35%, with computing services right-sizing and consolidation.

PrimeIT

Senior IT Consultant / September, 2018 — September, 2024

Helping other teams with their challenges and getting new customers by answering RFI, RFQ and RFP, related to DevOps and Cloud, Infrastructure or Release Management.

NBCC Consulting

IT Consultant / October, 2017 — September, 2018

Jenkins-based deployment automation and Operations process improvement and support. Software Development Lifecycle processes definition and implementation, with a Java-based custom-made solution.

SIBS

Configuration and Release Manager / October, 2016 — August, 2017

Configuration & Release Management. Defining and optimizing Java and COBOL software development, compilation, and deployment processes.

NOESIS Portugal

Junior IT Consultant / January, 2011 — September, 2016

Software Change & Configuration Management (SCM) tools integration and Java and .Net application development. Defining and optimizing software development, compilation, and deployment processes.

Trainee IT Consultant / June, 2008 — January, 2011

Software Change & Configuration Management (SCCM) tool implementation, integration & support. Java and .Net software development, compilation, and deployment process optimization.

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