Conrado Buhrer
DevOps Engineer at Fast Growing Trees
Santa Catarina, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolConrado Buhrer is a seasoned DevOps and cloud platform engineer with 16 years of experience modernizing infrastructure and architecting AWS-native solutions. An AWS Certified Solutions Architect, he blends hands-on platform work with strategic cloud architecture, having held roles from Site Reliability Engineer to Director of Engineering across Brazil, North America and Europe. He has a strong open-source pedigree—contributing substantive fixes to core Ansible modules and to django-cms, improving package management and i18n robustness in widely-used projects. Comfortable in both engineering leadership and deep technical execution, Conrado moves between automation, data and search use cases (Elasticsearch) to deliver reliable, scalable systems. Based in Santa Catarina, Brazil, he pairs an AI and computer science educational background with a long history of practical tool-building and developer ergonomics improvements. Notably, his contributions to Ansible’s apt module show a focus on reducing redundant logic and improving package dependency handling—small changes with outsized operational impact.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Webster Leiden CampusBachelor of Science (B.S.) Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Artificial Intelligence at University of AmsterdamElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Fontys Venlo University of Applied Sciences
English, Portuguese, Dutch, French, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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ansible
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jinja2
top-5%
Github Skills (46)
cms10
wordpress-themes10
package-management10
python10
debian10
django10
package-development10
plugin-development10
packaging10
linux10
bash10
terminal-emulator10
deb10
html-template10
terminal-application10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Bash-it/bash-it
Apr 2013 - Dec 2014
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:
Community Contributor
Community ContributorContributions:6 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Conrado contributed to the Bash-it framework by adding new themes, including the "slick" theme, and providing aliases for common tools like `vim` and `ansible`. They also addressed a bug related to `hg` branch operations and subsequently reverted a `vim` alias change. The contributions focus on enhancing the user experience through customizable themes and providing helpful shortcuts for developers.
bash-promptbash-completionbash-configurationproductivitybash-framework
ansible/ansible-modules-core
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Ansible modules - these modules ship with ansible
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Conrado contributed to the `ansible-modules-core` repository, which focuses on Ansible modules. Their work involved modifying the `apt` module, specifically adding and refactoring functionality related to build dependencies. The commits demonstrate a focus on improving the module's features and state management to facilitate package installation and dependency handling. This user was also responsible for removing redundant or erroneous logic within the module.
ansibleshipansible-modules
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