Summary
Miguel David is an experienced engineering manager with 11 years building and operating cloud-native systems, currently leading distributed SRE and product teams and now at Buffer after guiding Harvest through acquisition. He led a zero-downtime, 3-year Vitess migration at peak 12K QPS, delivered $240K/year in cloud savings, and kept 99.95% uptime across 11 GKE clusters supporting $3.6M ARR. Pragmatic and people-first, he coaches engineers to promotion, fosters async-first, cross-timezone collaboration, and prioritizes sustainable pace and psychological safety. Deeply hands-on in Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP and observability, he also implemented KEDA autoscaling and CI/CD optimizations that cut compute costs over 60% for core services. Comfortable across incident command, cost optimization, and platform reliability, he blends systems-level expertise with product-minded stabilization work. Based in Brussels, he’s open to remote or local engineering manager roles focused on SRE, platform, or product engineering.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Computer Engineering, Licenciatura, Computer Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto
Masters, BioInformatics, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing, Masters, BioInformatics, Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing at Universidade do Minho
Technical University of Denmark
French, Portuguese, English, Italian