Summary
Felipe Amarante is a Principal platform and architecture engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-efficient cloud platforms and leading teams through large-scale transformations. He has progressed from network and Linux ops to SRE, solutions architect at AWS, and platform leadership roles where he scaled teams from single digits to 30+ engineers and delivered 99.99% uptime. Felipe specializes in landing zones, Kubernetes platforms, distributed systems, and pragmatic re-architectures that cut costs (e.g., a 45% reduction at Digibee) while improving reliability. He excels at translating boardroom strategy into operational realities, having partnered with C-level leaders at enterprises like Disney, Netflix, and Capital One. Comfortable in ambiguity, he takes on the hardest problems—complex migrations, security blind spots, and scaling bottlenecks—and turns them into measurable wins. Based in Lisbon, he combines startup grit (founder experience) with enterprise-grade engineering discipline.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
System Analyst Computer and Information Systems Security, System Analyst Computer and Information Systems Security at Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo - FATEC-SP
English, Portuguese, Spanish