Ricardo Castro
Director Of Engineering, Sportsbook Operational Excellence (Blip.pt)
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolRicardo Castro is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience leading SRE and platform engineering efforts, currently driving Sportsbook Operational Excellence at FanDuel (Blip.pt). He combines deep hands-on expertise in Go, Python, Kubernetes (CKAD/CKA/CKS), Terraform, and GitOps with practical experience across AWS/Azure and configuration management tools. Ricardo has moved from individual contributor SRE roles to strategic engineering leadership while continuing to shape developer experience and reliability practices. A seasoned conference speaker, tech writer and community organizer (DevOpsDays Portugal, DevOps Porto, KCD Porto), he often translates complex cloud-native concepts into actionable playbooks. Notably, he pairs certification-backed infrastructure skills with a long history of research and product engineering, giving him a rare blend of academic rigor and production-focused delivery.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at Universidade do Porto
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
763reputation
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32answers
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Github Skills (180)
docker-logs10
prometheus-exporter10
build-automation10
monitoring10
markdown10
api10
graphing10
database10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
graph10
go10
prometheus10
slate10
docker10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mccricardo/mccricardo.github.io
Feb 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:26 PRs, 53 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 3 months
mccricardo/django_maintenance
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:44 commits in 21 days
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