Summary
Felipe Maia is a Staff/Principal-level platform and cloud engineer with over 13 years of hands-on experience and 20+ years in IT deeply focused on reliability, scalability, and cost-efficient operations. He has owned end-to-end platform responsibilities for high-scale streaming analytics and royalties systems used by millions, leading initiatives that cut cloud spend by 46% while preserving performance. Felipe blends Site Reliability, Platform/DevOps, Cloud Architecture, and Data/MLOps expertise to standardize CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, and data pipelines across hundreds of repos and multiple AWS accounts. He’s known for turning high-risk, ambiguous systems into “boring” resilient platforms through observability, automation, and fault-tolerant design. A top 3% Toptal freelancer, he excels where he can shape architecture and mentor teams to scale sustainably. Based in Brazil, he also brings domain experience in computer vision and production MLOps pipelines, making him comfortable bridging data science and infra.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Systems Analysis and Development, Bachelor's degree Systems Analysis and Development at Anhanguera Educacional
MBA / Specialist Computer Software Engineering, MBA / Specialist Computer Software Engineering at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Master of Business Administration - MBA Computer Vision Master, Master of Business Administration - MBA Computer Vision Master at ICA PUC-Rio
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French