Summary
Cris Apolinário is a seasoned Platform Engineer and DevOps leader with 17 years of hands-on experience and a 19-year trajectory in IT, currently coordinating the DevOps specialization and teaching infrastructure-as-code and platform engineering at CESAR School. She leads Platform Engineering and the DevOps vertical at CESAR, blending team leadership, technical management, and practitioner-level skills in CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native operations. Her background spans security-focused roles (SIEM, hardening, NoSQL security) and extensive system administration, giving her a rare combination of operational rigor and developer-facing platform design. Cris has driven cultural and tooling changes—implementing Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Ansible and more—while also designing accelerated public training programs to broaden tech inclusion in Brazil. She pairs academic depth (professional master’s in software engineering) with practical impact, mentoring large cohorts through FAST and shaping curriculum tied to market needs. Based in Pernambuco, she is known for translating complex infrastructure challenges into teachable, repeatable practices that scale across teams and projects.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Technologist, Internet and Computers Network (2.5 years), Technologist, Internet and Computers Network (2.5 years) at Universidade Salgado de Oliveira
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Professional MBA on Computers Network, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Professional MBA on Computers Network at ESAB - Escola Superior Aberta do Brasil
Pós-graduação Stricto Sensu - Mestrado Profissional, Engenharia de Software, Pós-graduação Stricto Sensu - Mestrado Profissional, Engenharia de Software at CESAR School
Portuguese, English