Summary
Kelvin Lopes is an SRE and Platform Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building resilient, high-performance infrastructure for mission-critical services across finance, foodtech and enterprise clients. He has deep expertise in edge traffic technologies (CDNs like Akamai/Cloudflare, Kong/NGINX gateways, Istio/Envoy) and runs large-scale Kubernetes ingress and service mesh environments with strong observability using Datadog, Prometheus and Grafana. Kelvin brings proven skills in IaC, container orchestration and cloud migrations across AWS, GCP and private clouds, having designed infra for global apps and multibrand platforms at ThoughtWorks and iFood. He pairs platform development and on-call incident resolution with performance tuning and chaos-style stress testing to harden key components. Based in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, he is completing an MBA in Software Engineering with AI, reflecting a blend of operational rigor and interest in applying AI to platform engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico Informática, Técnico Informática at FAETEC
Tecnólogo Segurança da Informação, Tecnólogo Segurança da Informação at Unisinos
Master of Business Administration - MBA Engenharia de Software com IA, Master of Business Administration - MBA Engenharia de Software com IA at Full Cycle
Portuguese, English