Ricardo Amaro
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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RockstarRicardo Amaro is a PhD-trained software engineering manager based in Lisbon with 12+ years leading platform, DevOps and SRE teams to run thousands of machines at hyper-scale. He blends academic rigor with hands-on delivery, architecting secure, observable cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, eBPF) and building AI-augmented tooling such as DevOps Copilot and RCA automation that materially reduced OpEx and MTTR. At Acquia he drove a transformation to data-driven SRE across 53 clusters and 55,000+ services; today he leads kernel-level telemetry and AI-driven threat detection at Elastic while teaching and researching AIOps. A long-time open source advocate since the 1990s Linux era, he contributes to projects like Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry and co-authored O’Reilly’s Seeking SRE—bringing a rare mix of research, practitioner experience, and people-focused leadership.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (167)
php-fpm10
xhprof10
docker-container10
opentelemetry10
linux10
logstash10
elisp10
vagrant10
kubernetes10
drupal10
docker10
docker-image10
memcached10
emacs-lisp9
emacs9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ricardoamaro/kubernetes_website
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Contributions:107 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
ricardoamaro/drupalci_testbot
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
This is a testing version of Drupal testbot using docker containers. Please use:
Contributions:337 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year
docker-containerdrupaltesting
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