Summary
Mateus Sousa is a Staff Platform Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving PicPay’s Kubernetes-based Container-as-a-Service platform. He designs and delivers scalable, multi-region EKS clusters and GitOps/CI-CD pipelines, having reduced lab/dev costs by ~50% through ephemeral clusters and now managing 150+ clusters in AWS. Previously he led SRE teams for high-traffic environments, owned multi-cluster deployments with millions of monthly requests and hundreds of daily deploys, and is fluent in Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, and observability tooling. A pragmatic mentor and architecture reviewer, he balances reliability, cost efficiency, and developer velocity while evaluating new technologies to evolve platform stacks. Based in Paraíba, Brazil, he pairs formal studies in systems and information security with a career-long emphasis on automation, disaster recovery, and measurable operational improvements.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
North Paraná University
Portuguese, English