Rafael Zago
Senior Software Quality Engineer - Red Hat Openshift Service Mesh
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Summary
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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 (29)
openshift9
operator8
documentation8
hybrid-cloud8
linux7
governance7
istio6
rio6
kubernetes6
alpine-linux6
testing5
docker-image5
diagnostic-tool4
networking4
splunk4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelvzago/rafaelvzago.github.io
Sep 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:42 PRs, 196 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 10 months
rafaelvzago/skupper-tests
Oct 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:5 reviews, 31 PRs, 109 pushes in 3 months
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