Summary
Raphael Borges is a Senior Observability Engineer from Brazil with four years of focused experience in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation. Founder and maintainer of the OKE-FREE project, he enables free, long-term Kubernetes clusters on Oracle Cloud via OpenTofu, reflecting a knack for pragmatic open-source tooling. He has deep hands-on experience across AWS, Azure and OCI, using Terraform, CloudFormation, ArgoCD and Flux to deliver scalable, observable systems and CI/CD pipelines. Co-author of "Demystifying Kubernetes" and a DevOpsDays organizer, Raphael blends community leadership with practical engineering. His background spans consulting and cross-cloud DevOps roles where he consistently turns complex operational needs into automated, maintainable solutions.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Specialization, Postgraduate Specialization in DevOps & Continuous Software Engineering, Postgraduate Specialization, Postgraduate Specialization in DevOps & Continuous Software Engineering at Puc Minas
Centro Universitário Internacional UNINTER