Matheus Melo
Paraíba, Brazil
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatheus Melo is a DevOps Lead with 10 years of experience building reliable, cloud-native platforms and automation across startups and research labs in Brazil. He combines hands-on SRE and DevOps work—migrating Docker workloads to GKE, authoring Kubernetes operators, and codifying infrastructure with Terraform—with strong test automation skills demonstrated in ManageIQ and Zulip contributions. Comfortable across Python, Bash, Operator-SDK and CI/CD tooling (Travis, Jenkins, Spinnaker), he focuses on observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger) and scalability through stress testing and robust alerting. An active open-source contributor, he has implemented user-group features in the popular Zulip project while expanding integration test coverage for physical infrastructure in ManageIQ. Based in Paraíba, Matheus blends academic research experience with production delivery and likes to describe his work as "fixing planes while they fly," reflecting a pragmatic approach to live-system reliability.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Federal University of Campina Grande
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
pytest10
python10
testing10
manageiq10
django9
uitest9
ui-testing9
rest-api8
react8
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
selenium7
git7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/integration_tests
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
ManageIQ integration tests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 23 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matheus primarily contributed to the integration tests for the ManageIQ project by adding tests for Lenovo switch, physical overview and physical storage entities, demonstrating a focus on expanding test coverage for physical infrastructure components. The user made code changes that involved modifying existing provider configurations and adding new properties related to management functionalities. These changes are also supported by the inclusion of new tests and fixtures, showcasing the importance of test automation. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code and fixed bugs related to provider configurations.
manageiqpythontestingseleniumpytest
zulip/zulip
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Matheus contributed to the Zulip server and web application by implementing features related to user group management, including adding settings for who can edit user groups. They modified both backend code in Python (zerver/views/user_groups.py) and frontend code in JavaScript (static/js/settings_org.js and static/templates/user_groups_admin.hbs) to implement and manage these settings. The changes included adding new validators and refactoring to use them, and the tests in test_user_groups.py show a focus on quality.
zulippythonpython3chatjavascript
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