Rafael De Araujo Pires
Tech Manager at ClickBus
Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael De Araujo Pires is a technology leader with 18+ years of experience who currently serves as Tech Manager at ClickBus, specializing in platform engineering, SRE, DevOps and developer experience. He has led large engineering organizations across Latin America, scaling platforms that handle millions of monthly orders while driving 99.99% availability, cross-border data unification and measurable cloud cost optimizations. At AB InBev and Zé Delivery he created global reliability and engineering-effectiveness disciplines, introduced IA to boost developer productivity, and delivered multi-country platform standards and security/compliance programs. Rafael combines hands-on infrastructure expertise (Kubernetes/EKS, ArgoCD, IaC) with strategic product-facing architectural decisions and FinOps governance. He is known for turning regulatory and operational constraints—like LGPD and open banking—into repeatable processes that improve speed and trust. Based in Brazil, he pairs people development and mentoring with a proven track record of reducing MTTR and deployment inconsistencies while increasing delivery consistency.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Fédération Internationale de l'Art PhotographiqueSenacBachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Anhanguera EducacionalExecutive Educational Program in Leadership, Head of Technology 5.0, Executive Educational Program in Leadership, Head of Technology 5.0 at Strides Tech Community
Portuguese, EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
orafapires/concrete-blog-posts
Mar 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 PRs, 129 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
concreteposts
orafapires/elo7_challenge
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
DevOps challenge repository
Contributions:15 PRs, 50 pushes, 17 branches in 12 days
devopsansibledockerkubernetesterraform
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