Ian Cardoso
Senior Platform Enginer
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolIan Cardoso is a Senior Platform Engineer based in São Paulo with 6+ years building and operating cloud-native backend systems, specializing in Golang, Kubernetes, and high-throughput architectures. He has hands-on experience migrating self-hosted clusters to modern EKS versions and has driven multi-tenant platform reliability using RAFT-based orchestration. A seasoned open-source maintainer, Ian contributed integration and e2e testing improvements to the lightweight Kubernetes project k3s, adding coverage around etcd snapshots and server flags. He has repeatedly cut operational costs and complexity—most notably helping a CRM platform avoid millions in database spend—while leading observability migrations to Datadog. Comfortable working across multinational teams, he blends strong testing discipline with pragmatic platform design to scale distributed systems. Trained as a mechatronics engineer, he brings a hardware-aware systems perspective that often surfaces non-obvious reliability and performance optimizations.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Graduação Engenharia Mecatrônica, Graduação Engenharia Mecatrônica at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFU
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
go10
k8s10
kubernetes-pods10
integration-testing10
test-automation10
etcd9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
k3s-io/k3s
Apr 2023 - Jan 2024
Lightweight Kubernetes
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:72 reviews, 50 PRs, 19 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ian contributed significantly to the integration testing framework of the k3s project. They added new integration tests, specifically focusing on etcd snapshots and kube-* server flags. Furthermore, they implemented a function to search logs for specific strings, demonstrating a strong understanding of testing methodologies within a Kubernetes environment. They also added and updated e2e tests.
k3dcloudfoundryk8skuberneteskubelet
osodracnai/k3s
Apr 2023 - Oct 2023
Lightweight Kubernetes
Contributions:95 pushes, 27 branches in 6 months
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