Ricardo Amaro
Software Engineering Manager Security - Integrations
Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo 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.
12 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
DBA, Oracle DBA, DBA, Oracle DBA at Oracle UniversityPh.D. - Doctor of Philosophy, Information Science and Technology, Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy, Information Science and Technology at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de LisboaRed hat Certified Engineer, Systems Administration, Network Security, Red hat Certified Engineer, Systems Administration, Network Security at RedhatM.Sc., Information and Enterprise Systems, M.Sc., Information and Enterprise Systems at Instituto Superior TécnicoInstituto Politécnico de LisboaEscola Secundária José Gomes FerreiraB.Sc., Engineering & Computer Science, B.Sc., Engineering & Computer Science at Universidade Aberta
Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French
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Github Skills (191)
php-fpm10
xhprof10
opentelemetry10
apc10
docker-compose10
elisp10
kubernetes10
drupal10
docker10
fpm10
docker-image10
virtualbox10
emacs-lisp9
linux9
pantheon9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ricardoamaro/kubernetes_website
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Contributions:107 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
ricardoamaro/drupal9-docker-app
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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