Rafael Zago
Senior Software Quality Engineer - Red Hat Openshift Service Mesh
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
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Top SchoolRafael Zago is a Senior Software Quality Engineer with a decade of experience building automated test suites and validating real-world microservice workflows for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh and Service Interconnect. Based in Brasília, he blends deep systems and infrastructure roots (Unix/Linux, networking, DevOps) with proficiency in Go and Python to ensure robust connectivity and observability across Kubernetes and Istio landscapes. His career spans hands-on production support at large enterprises, teaching roles, and active participation in the software community—now contributing to Istio open source and shaping quality/testing content for The Developers Conference. Known for turning complex, high-availability requirements into reliable automated validation pipelines, he also brings an educator’s clarity to technical problems and cross-team collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização Engenharia de Software, Pós-graduação Lato Sensu - Especialização Engenharia de Software at MBA USP/EsalqLato Sensu Postgraduate Degree - Specialization Computer Networks Specialist, Lato Sensu Postgraduate Degree - Specialization Computer Networks Specialist at Extecamp UnicampTechnology analysis and systems development IT, Technology analysis and systems development IT at Anhanguera Educacional
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (21)
hybrid-cloud8
kubernetes7
hybrid6
rio6
splunk4
javascript3
testing3
exporter2
kibana2
metadata2
filemaker2
python2
ai2
grafana1
llm1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelvzago/skupper-tests
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 31 PRs, 109 pushes in 3 months
rafaelvzago/skupper
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
Skupper is an implementation of a Virtual Application Network, enabling rich hybrid cloud communication.
Contributions:9 PRs, 45 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years
virtual-application-networkcommunicationcloudkuberneteshybrid-cloud
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