Summary
Filipe Reis is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Stony Stratford, UK, with eight years of professional experience building cloud-native systems and platform services. He has driven production-grade work at AWS (Managed Streaming Kafka), Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, and now Ripple, blending platform reliability with scalable streaming infrastructure. Holding a MSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, he pairs formal academic training with self-taught passions in software and AI. Known for designing practical solutions, he moved from machine learning roles into platform engineering, giving him a rare cross-section of data, infra, and service design expertise. Outside work he’s an avid video-game fan and self-directed technologist who shares his interests publicly and even accepts community support via Ko-fi. This combination of cloud-scale experience and an appetite for AI-driven design makes him effective at turning complex requirements into maintainable systems.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Engineering, Master's degree Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto