Summary
Elisiário Couto is a versatile software engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating cloud-native and edge systems from Porto, Portugal. He has driven infrastructure and DevOps initiatives across retail, IoT, and 3D media companies, architecting self-service deployment platforms, migrations to Zero Trust, and resilient microservices with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes/ECS and custom tooling. At Metric4 he connects LoRaWAN and UWB sensor networks to data-driven safety solutions, while prior roles saw him containerize complex pipelines, introduce CI/CD, and deliver client-facing CLIs and monitoring stacks. A pragmatic tinkerer who cares about design and beautiful visualizations, he champions automation, FinOps and developer experience (Backstage) to improve operational efficiency. His background spans bare-metal provisioning to serverless patterns, reflecting a hands-on approach that blends low-level systems work with product-focused thinking.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
CS184.1x Foundations of Computer Graphics, CS184.1x Foundations of Computer Graphics at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German