Ivo Calado is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-native systems across AWS and GCP. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Electrical Engineering) with practical platform engineering skills in Python, Go and Java, focusing on event-driven and microservices architectures. Ivo has strong expertise in reliability, automation and cost-aware infrastructure, now applying that to Datadog’s Cloud Cost Management to link observability with cloud spend. He has led teams and mentored engineers as a first-line manager, and his background spans production DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform and security/compliance practices like SOC2. His career uniquely blends applied research (wireless networks, QoS, kernel contributions) with large-scale government and enterprise projects, demonstrating an ability to move from low-level systems work to high-level architectural decisions. Based in Paris, he holds multiple cloud and Kubernetes certifications, signaling both breadth and rigor in cloud operations and platform design.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Electrical Engineering at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
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