Summary
Joao Batista is a senior DevOps and backend engineer with over 14 years of professional experience and two decades of hands-on expertise designing and operating reliable, scalable systems. He has held senior engineering and DevOps roles across startups and established companies—most recently at Goloot and ZestyAI—and has led teams and CI/infrastructure efforts as a technical director and consultant. Comfortable bridging development and operations, he has deep Linux, CI/CD and cloud deployment experience honed from founding a consultancy in 2001 to driving platform work at Plotly and Savoir-faire Linux. Joao combines a pragmatic engineering mindset with business acumen from an MBA, enabling him to translate product needs into production-ready systems. A steady, behind-the-scenes contributor, he favors practical automation and observability improvements that reduce toil and accelerate delivery.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BSC, Computer Science, BSC, Computer Science at Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
MBA, Business Management, MBA, Business Management at Faculdade Integrada do Recife