Summary
Gustavo Alkmim is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer based in Vancouver with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale cloud and infrastructure systems. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python, Linux, virtualization (VMware, KVM, Xen), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and multi-cloud platforms (AWS and GCP), combined with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling. His career includes four years at AWS (Snowball/Snowmobile and Prime) and progressive SRE leadership at Criteo, where he advanced from Senior to Staff SRE, evidencing both technical influence and team leadership. Academically grounded with a Computer Science degree and a Master’s focused on virtual network mapping, he also contributed to Debian through multiple Google Summer of Code projects improving cross-build and multi-arch bootstrapping. Comfortable operating at the intersection of systems, storage, and networking, he’s known for solving tricky cross-platform build and deployment problems and mentoring teams to adopt reliable, automated practices.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Virtualization, Graduate, Virtualization at Universidade Federal de Lavras
Master's degree, Virtual Network Mapping, Master's degree, Virtual Network Mapping at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
English, Portuguese