Summary
Carlos Zillner is a DevSecOps lead and self-taught engineer with nine years of formal experience and decades of hands-on development dating back to childhood. He designs and hardens large-scale, low-latency systems—recently building a real-time abuse-detection and automated IP-blocking platform integrated with Cloudflare/WAF and tuning high-concurrency PostgreSQL deployments. As a former CTO and founder he has repeatedly modernized infrastructures, led small engineering teams, and shipped full-stack products from greenfield to production across Python, Ruby on Rails, and cloud-native AWS stacks. His toolbox spans Terraform, ECS, Lambda, RDS/Aurora, performance metaprogramming, and both frontend and backend optimizations, reflecting a rare blend of security, ops, and application-level craftsmanship. Notably, he built ephemeral environment generation and metaprogramming solutions that produced 100+ protobuf methods, showing a pragmatic focus on automation and developer velocity. Based in Brazil, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep operational experience solving real-world abuse, scaling, and reliability challenges.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Faculdade Teológica Batista de Perdizes
Colégio Singular
Associate's degree Web Design, Associate's degree Web Design at Panamericana . Escola de Arte e Design
Portuguese, English