Gabriel Sousa
Senior Platform Engineer
Leiria, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Sousa is a Senior Platform Engineer with over 30 years of Unix/Linux systems experience and 11 years focused on DevOps and platform automation. He architects and operates CI/CD and GitOps workflows across Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) and container platforms, automating infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible and other IAC tools while hardening systems for high availability and disaster recovery. Gabriel has hands-on expertise in RHEL derivatives, Docker, ArgoCD/Workflows, GitHub Actions, Jenkins and ELK, backed by RHCSA/RHCE and CKA certifications. His career spans enterprise and retail environments—from AS/400 and traditional sysadmin roles to modern cloud-native platforms—bringing rare depth in legacy-to-cloud migrations. Based in Leiria, Portugal, he combines deep troubleshooting skills with a pragmatic approach to operationalizing complex Kubernetes estates.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Polytechnic of Leiria
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (200)
reverse-proxy10
proxy10
letsencrypt10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
pipeline10
vault10
golang10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
cicd10
go10
load-balancer10
docker10
plugin10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
gabrielfsousa/zookeeper-kafka-kubernetes
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
gabrielfsousa/hardware_oplus
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 14 branches in 1 month
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