Rafael Reia
Platform Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Reia is a Platform Engineer with 11 years’ experience building reliable, automated cloud infrastructure for fintech and media companies across Europe. Currently at Checkout.com, he has held senior SRE/Platform roles at Cloudignyte, Sky and Mollie, bringing deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana. His background includes end-to-end platform ownership—provisioning EKS, EMR and Apache Druid, instrumenting monitoring, and driving infrastructure-as-code practices that improve reliability and developer velocity. A dual master’s graduate from Instituto Superior Técnico and the University of Amsterdam, he blends strong academic foundations with hands-on systems work and a history of shepherding teams as a Scrum Master. Notably, Rafael pairs software engineering with site reliability instincts, preferring automation-first solutions that reduce toil and surface hard-to-find failures before they impact users.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of AmsterdamMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (17)
azure-devops6
yaml5
windows4
terraform4
gcp4
azure4
python3
azure-pipelines3
devops3
cicd3
terraform-provider2
druid2
trace2
wikimedia1
standard-library1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RafaelReia/RefactoringToolDevelop
Dec 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:49 commits, 4 PRs, 40 pushes in 5 months
RafaelReia/tese
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
Contributions:135 commits in 1 year 1 month
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