Summary
Alfredo Oliveira is a DevOps and Cloud Engineer with 10 years of experience combining software development, infrastructure automation and academic rigor; he holds a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering and a Master's in Electrical Engineering and is a PhD student in Computer Science. He has advanced Java and cloud practice from senior engineering roles at Santander Portugal and PrimeIT and now focuses on DevOps and cloud-native engineering at Critical TechWorks. Alfredo is certified AZ-104 and CKA, with hands-on experience across AWS and Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and observability stacks, and a history of optimizing delivery processes end-to-end. He pairs strong systems knowledge (Linux, containers, messaging, databases) with practical automation (Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins) and a background teaching computer science, which sharpens his ability to communicate complex concepts. Notably, his career bridges research and production—developing academic software and then operationalizing microservices at scale—making him equally comfortable designing architectures and shipping resilient platforms.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Engineering Artificial Intelligence and Automation and Control, Bachelor of Computer Engineering Artificial Intelligence and Automation and Control at Universidade Estadual do Maranhão
PhD student Ciência da Computação, PhD student Ciência da Computação at UFMA - Universidade Federal do Maranhão
Medium-integrated level technician Eletrotécnica, Medium-integrated level technician Eletrotécnica at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Sudeste de Minas
English