Ricardo Barros
Diretor at Be Agile
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Barros is a cloud-focused engineering director with 12+ years building multi-region Kubernetes platforms and managing large AWS estates, currently leading teams at Be Agile while also serving as Lead Platform Engineer at Condé Nast. He has a proven track record of architecting scalable microservices, automating infrastructure with Terraform, and streamlining CI/CD to cut downtime and operational costs significantly. Ricardo has led projects exceeding $10M, modernized legacy backends into Kubernetes-based microservices, and halved deployment times for high-traffic sites like BBC Goodfood. A Certified Kubernetes Administrator, he combines hands-on platform engineering with mentorship and technical writing to enable self-service across organizations. Based in Lisbon, he’s finishing a BSc in Computing and IT and is known for turning performance regressions into proactive testing that materially reduced post-deployment incidents.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharelado Computing and IT, Bacharelado Computing and IT at The Open UniversityTécnico Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos, Técnico Gestão e Programação de Sistemas Informáticos at Escola Profissional de Educação para o Desenvolvimento
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
linter10
swipeview10
javascript10
validation10
ecmascript10
icecream10
typescript10
cross-platform10
eslint10
lint10
android10
sanitization10
mobile10
nodejs10
static-code-analysis10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ricardofbarros/mongules
Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 10 months
validationmongoose-modelvalidatornodejsmongoose
ricardofbarros/linter-js-standard
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Atom linter plugin for JavaScript, using JavaScript Standard Style
Contributions:1 release, 244 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 2 months
lintersemistandardjavascriptatom-linterjavascript-standard
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