Paulo Cabido
Sr. Director Of Engineering Operations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaulo Cabido is a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering leader with 17 years of experience, currently heading global SRE for Cisco ThousandEyes and responsible for the reliability, security, and performance of a multi-region SaaS platform used by large enterprises. He joined ThousandEyes as the founding infrastructure engineer in stealth mode and grew the SRE function from a one-person effort into a 100+ engineer global organization spanning five cities. Paulo led critical platform transitions—moving from data center to Kafka-driven streaming microservices on Kubernetes and then to a multi-region cloud architecture—and steered the team through Cisco’s acquisition while achieving FedRAMP Moderate authorization to open the government market. He blends hands-on engineering, operational rigor, and people leadership with a practical focus on observability, security, and scalable CI/CD. Now focused on integrating AI into SRE practices, he leverages both deep systems experience and early open-source contributions (including work on Getting Things GNOME) to make teams faster and systems more resilient.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Évora
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
plugin-development10
gui-application10
gtk10
python10
desktop-application10
desktop10
gnome9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
getting-things-gnome/gtg
Jul 2009 - Dec 2011
Getting Things GNOME! desktop app development
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:83 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paulo implemented significant changes related to the plugin engine, specifically focusing on the integration of plugins within the Getting Things Gnome! desktop application. Their work included modifying core files related to the task browser, task editor, and the plugin engine itself. The user also added a "Hello World" plugin as a basic example, along with enhancements to the plugin's capabilities like the option to set task locations, and handling of dependencies.
pygobjectgnome-shell-extensiongetting-things-donegjsgnome
thousandeyes/puppet-teagent
Jul 2014 - Sep 2017
Puppet module for the ThousandEyes enterprise agent.
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 years 2 months
agentpuppetpuppet-modulethousandeyesenterprise
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