Miguel Ferreira is a versatile software and systems engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native, mission-critical platforms and leading engineering teams. He blends hands-on implementation — from automated provisioning and CI/CD blueprints to Vault and Kubernetes operations — with strategic leadership, having rebuilt delivery processes and aligned technical roadmaps to business goals at GRESB and now Nosana. Miguel has led architecture and DevOps transformations across finance, healthcare, and aviation clients, delivering multi-region, active-active systems and DevOps-as-a-service solutions. He contributes to open-source cloud projects such as Apache CloudStack, bringing practical QA and backend improvements that reflect a deep systems-level understanding. Comfortable working from board-level strategy to on-call incident response, he emphasizes ownership, security, and measurable delivery. Based in Amsterdam, he pairs academic training in computer science with an engineer’s curiosity for automating complexity and shipping resilient infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Universidade do Minho
Apache CloudStack is an opensource Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:21 commits, 23 PRs, 221 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Miguel contributed to the project by implementing and testing functionalities within the `apache/cloudstack` repository. Their work involved testing configurations and the use of zones, indicated by the first commit. They also addressed syntax errors and improved code formatting. Furthermore, the user was involved in testing the XenServer hypervisor, as evidenced by changes in test classes and related commands.
Contributions:2 PRs, 87 pushes, 29 branches in 5 months
apache-cloudstackapachecloudcloudstackjava
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