Andre Almar
Lead Engineer at Thoughtworks
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolAndre Almar is a Lead Engineer at Thoughtworks with 11+ years building cloud-native, SRE and ML infrastructure across industries, now focused on AI product and agent optimization within Thoughtworks AI Labs. He combines hands-on platform engineering—Kubernetes, GKE, Prometheus—and SRE practices with leadership experience founding consultancies and training programs like DevOps Bootcamp. A prolific community voice, Andre has spoken at GISEC Global, Google DevFest and organized DevOps meetups in Belo Horizonte, and contributes to open source projects such as Docker and Crossplane. He also brings a builder’s mindset from earlier entrepreneurial ventures (including a carbon-credit startup) and recent postgraduate study in machine learning and cybersecurity. Based in Belo Horizonte, he balances family life with amateur professional tennis, reflecting a competitive, curious drive that shapes his engineering approach.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Machine Learning, Postgraduate Degree Machine Learning at IESBPostgraduate Degree in Cybersecurity and Information Security, Postgraduate Degree in Cybersecurity and Information Security at XP EducaçãoGraduate Diploma Software Engineering, Graduate Diploma Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Universidade Paulista
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (156)
reverse-proxy10
proxy10
site-reliability-engineering10
letsencrypt10
wagon10
golang10
load-balancing10
etcd10
traefik10
load-balancer10
reliability10
sre10
docker10
vip10
devops10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
andrealmar/talks
Nov 2018 - Dec 2022
Talks I've given
Contributions:66 commits, 61 pushes in 4 years 1 month
andrealmar/sre-university
Mar 2017 - Oct 2022
A complete study plan to become a Site Reliability Engineer.
Contributions:29 commits, 10 PRs, 26 pushes in 5 years 7 months
plansite-reliability-engineeringdevopsreliabilitysite-reliability
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