Summary
João Bastos is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems, primarily across Kubernetes and AWS/GCP environments. He specializes in improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency—delivering dramatic results like ~50% cloud cost reductions, 83% GPU efficiency gains, and 75% faster node provisioning. Comfortable working at the intersection of infrastructure and product, João refactors monoliths into independently scalable services, builds event-driven autoscaling, and embeds end-to-end observability with OpenTelemetry stacks. He pairs hands-on backend work in Python and TypeScript with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices, and has led SOC 2 and compliance-oriented efforts for fintech. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, João combines deep operational knowledge from high-throughput messaging and email platforms to modern cloud-native architectures, bringing a pragmatic focus on reducing toil through automation.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information systems, Bachelor’s Degree Information systems at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Portuguese, English