Summary
Luan Utimura is a Staff Platform Engineer with a decade of experience designing and optimizing cloud infrastructure, currently focused on platform-level compute and storage at QuintoAndar after leading similar efforts at Magalu Cloud. His work spans core OpenStack-based systems, edge cloud distributions, and scalable pipelines—highlighted by a 10x backup creation speedup and regional image synchronization that replaced manual processes. With an M.Sc. researching intrusion detection, botnet detection and machine learning, he blends strong research foundations with practical systems engineering to improve performance, reliability and operability. He has a track record of preventing build conflicts during major platform upgrades and contributing upstream improvements, demonstrating both hands-on implementation and open-source stewardship. Based in São Paulo, he combines academic rigor from UNESP with a knack for turning complex distributed systems problems into measurable operational gains.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Computer Systems., Master's degree, Computer Science, Computer Systems. at São Paulo State University
Portuguese, English