José Maia
IT Paladin at Critical TechWorks
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolJosé Maia is an IT Paladin with 10 years of experience building and operating Kubernetes-based Internal Developer Platforms, currently enabling BMW software teams at Critical TechWorks. He blends hands-on DevOps engineering with Scrum leadership, driving IAM redesigns, 24/7 platform operations, and team growth/splits to scale delivery. His background spans platform automation (Terraform, Ansible, Nomad, HashiCorp stack), observability tooling (C#/Grafana/Kibana) and cloud deployments across multi-cloud and Azure environments. José has a track record of promoting DevOps culture through meetups, talks and internal knowledge initiatives, and he led containerization and deployment strategies early in his career. Based in Porto, he holds a Master’s in Networks and Systems Engineering from Universidade do Porto and brings a pragmatic focus on developer experience and reliable platform ops. Notably, he pairs deep platform automation work with customer-facing collaboration, bridging technical solutions and developer productivity.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary school Sciences and Technologies, Secondary school Sciences and Technologies at Escola Secundária D. Afonso SanchesMaster's degree Networks and Systems Engineering, Master's degree Networks and Systems Engineering at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
330reputation
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Github Skills (200)
python10
grafana10
microsoft-azure10
asp-net-core10
terraform10
security10
asp-net10
kubernetes-cluster10
kustomize10
dotnet10
continuous-delivery10
helm10
jsonnet10
pipeline10
azure10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
josemaia/dotfiles
Jan 2020 - Dec 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 11 months
josemaia/josemaia.github.io
Dec 2017 - Jan 2026
Build a Jekyll blog in minutes, without touching the command line.
Contributions:4 PRs, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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