Guilherme Pimentel
Senior OpenStack Engineer at VEXXHOST Inc.
Paraíba, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolGuilherme Pimentel is a Senior OpenStack Engineer with a decade of IT experience and a current focus on building and maintaining private cloud environments. Based in Paraíba, Brazil, he leads deployment and operations at VEXXHOST Inc., and previously architected cloud solutions at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande. An active open-source contributor, he has strengthened OpenStack Ansible with new service support (Mistral, Placement, Murano) and deployment/testing improvements across All-In-One setups, reflecting a hands-on approach to scalable infrastructure. His work blends DevOps discipline with cloud architecture, security-aware resource controls, and ecosystem-wide collaboration. Beyond engineering, he brings a passion for music as a flamenco guitarist and bass player, underscoring a creative side that informs his collaborative ethos. He holds a bachelor's degree from UFCG and began his career as a system administrator, building a broad foundation in IT operations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at UFCG - Universidade Federal de Campina Grandetechnical, Information Technology, technical, Information Technology at Escola Técnica Redentorista
English
Github Skills (9)
testing10
ansible-galaxy10
openstack10
deployment-automation10
ansible10
yaml9
infrastructure-as-code9
bash6
python6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-ansible
Jul 2018 - Aug 2019
Ansible playbooks for deploying OpenStack. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Guilherme primarily contributed to the deployment and testing infrastructure of OpenStack Ansible, with a focus on adding support for new services like Mistral, Placement, and Murano. They modified inventory files and user configuration files to integrate these services and ensure correct deployment in various environments, including AIO (All-In-One) deployments. The changes also included modifications to restrict resource usage, and rename network configurations for Trove.
deployingansibleopendevansible-playbooksopenstack
guilhermesteinmuller/scripts-openstack
Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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