Ricardo De Lima is an infrastructure consultant and DevOps engineer with a PhD in Bio-Inspired Computing and 11 years of experience bridging academic research in evolutionary computation with hands-on cloud and automation work. He has built and operated CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, and workflow automation for product teams, bringing a researcher’s rigor to pragmatic infrastructure design. Comfortable developing in Python and Rust, he pairs ML expertise (TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn) with production-grade tooling like Docker, Airflow, and Bash to streamline delivery and observability. His career spans startups and consulting, where he has led self-service platform initiatives and end-to-end environment management from dev to production. Notably, he translates complex optimization and meta-heuristic insights into scalable automation patterns that improve reliability and developer productivity. Based in Paraná, Brazil, he’s keen to apply both academic depth and operational experience to challenging infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Sandwich Ph.D, Artificial Intelligence, Sandwich Ph.D, Artificial Intelligence at University of the Basque Country - UPV/EHU
Ph.D, Bio-Inspired Computing, Ph.D, Bio-Inspired Computing at Federal University of Paraná
Bacharelado, Computer Science, Bacharelado, Computer Science at Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste
Contributions:8 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
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Ricardo De Lima - Infrastructure Consultant at Thoughtworks