Guilherme Balzana
Cloud Operations Engineer
Brazil
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Top SchoolGuilherme Balzana is a Cloud Operations Engineer with 13+ years of expertise designing, building and operating GNU/Linux and OpenStack-based IaaS environments, including five clouds he personally architected and deployed. He combines strong infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet), tested automation (TDD, pytest, Packer) and pragmatic shell scripting to deliver resilient HPC and research computing platforms at scale. At institutions like the University of Cambridge and RNP he led secure, ISO‑aligned research computing services, implemented Open OnDemand portals, and integrated storage and sync solutions for national research networks. Now at Canonical, he brings hands-on cloud operations experience together with a long-standing open-source mindset and a knack for simplifying complex operational workflows. Outside work he sharpens problem-solving through CTFs and keeps perspective as a harmonica player and enthusiastic, if humble, chess player.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Technician, Informatics, Technician, Informatics at COTEMIG - Colégio e FaculdadeBacharelado, Computer Science, Bacharelado, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English
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Github Skills (187)
infrastructure10
ansible-role10
continuous-testing10
puppet10
provisioning10
hpc-applications10
virtualization10
maintenance10
hybrid-cloud10
maas9
infrastructure-management9
linux9
ansible9
wrapping9
vagrant9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
guimaluf/puppet-swift
Jul 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 1 month
puppetpuppet-moduleswiftopenstack-swiftopenstack
guimaluf/tibetan-pecha
Aug 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 3 years 4 months
tibetanodflatexformats
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