Luiz Ferreira
Senior Platform Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLuiz Ferreira is a Senior Platform Engineer based in Berlin with over 15 years in software development, specializing in Golang, NodeJS and Java for distributed, high-availability systems. He has driven platform reliability and developer experience at organizations like OneFootball, Mercedes‑Benz Tech Innovation and Semrush, focusing on service onboarding, observability and Terraform-backed infrastructure automation. Comfortable across SRE, DevEx and security domains, he architects multi-tier web platforms and CI/CD pipelines while mentoring teams and shaping hiring/onboarding processes. Luiz combines hands-on coding with a strong emphasis on software best practices, testing, and performance SLAs, having led production-ready Golang microservice stacks with Kafka, Redis and Kubernetes. He’s actively sharpening his Go skills through open-source contributions and building frontends to bridge gaps in his current team’s stack. Pragmatic and curious, he pairs enterprise-grade architecture knowledge with a developer-first mindset that speeds safe delivery at scale.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ciência da Computação Ciência da Computação, Ciência da Computação Ciência da Computação at Universidade GuarulhosNão finalizado Análise de Sistemas de Computação, Não finalizado Análise de Sistemas de Computação at Fatec
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (27)
alacritty8
whiteboard8
airtable8
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lua7
nvim6
golang6
vim6
zap4
uuid3
ids3
java2
collision2
exponential2
segment2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lferreira/dotfiles
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
My essential configuration
Contributions:1 review, 39 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 9 months
vimessentialconfigasdfdotfiles
grupozap/zagallo
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
Knowledge of how to calculate URLs from Grupo ZAP portals
Contributions:30 releases, 66 PRs, 80 pushes in 7 months
urlsportalsknowledgecalculatezap
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