Marco Garcês
Founder CTO at Poetik Penguin
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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RockstarMarco Garcês is a seasoned sysadmin-turned-founder and CTO with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, SRE and DevOps practices for companies ranging from startups to enterprises. Based in Lisbon, he founded Poetik Penguin to provide consultancy in Sysadmin, SRE, DevOps, Cloud Computing and even digital marketing, bringing a blend of technical depth and product-minded client work. His background includes senior roles at OutSystems, Tripadvisor, Truphone and AWS, where he combined hands-on troubleshooting with technical leadership and hiring. Known for being "sysadmin by day, super-hero by night," he thrives on practical automation, resilient system design and translating complex infra needs into business outcomes. Clients across EU tech firms attest to his ability to move quickly from assessment to production-ready solutions. He pairs long-term operational experience with a founder’s agility, making him effective at both delivering projects and advising technical strategy.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (141)
wireguard10
opentofu10
mesh10
vpn10
golang10
tencent-cloud10
lambda10
filter10
zero-trust10
modern-ui10
virtual-network10
mesh-network10
jenkins10
nat-traversal10
ansible9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mgarces/rescan-scsi-bus
Feb 2013 - Jun 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
javascriptreactbusscsi
sshconfigio/sshconfigio.github.io
Nov 2015 - Jul 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 83 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
sshsshconfig
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