Summary
Joel Bastos is a seasoned VP of Engineering with 14 years of experience scaling cloud-native infrastructure, observability and security for high-growth fintech and e-commerce companies. He combines hands-on systems engineering (Prometheus, Thanos, Kubernetes, Terraform, Golang) with product-driven platform leadership, delivering self-service provisioning, CI/CD and observability products used by thousands of engineers. A published author on Prometheus and an active open-source contributor, he’s known for turning monitoring and reliability challenges into long-lived, cost-efficient platforms that retain full-resolution telemetry. Joel also excels at talent density: hiring, coaching and embedding reliability and security guardrails across organisations to boost developer velocity. Based in Porto, he brings rare experience migrating critical production systems for IPO-scale operations and building observability stacks that ingest millions of data points per second.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Information Science Engineering, Master's degree Information Science Engineering at Instituto Politécnico do Porto
English, Portuguese