Ricardo Henriques
DevOps Lead at Global
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Henriques is a DevOps Lead with 9 years of focused experience building cloud-native, real-time and data-intensive platforms from an operational and architectural perspective. He progressed from call-centre and first-line support roles into DBA and Hadoop administration before leading design and deployment of Kubernetes, Kafka, Istio/service-mesh and CI/CD ecosystems (Jenkins, Artifactory, Helm) at scale. Ricardo has hands-on history creating custom images, Helm charts, Ansible automation and on-prem/cloud hybrid Kafka deployments, blending deep systems knowledge with practitioner-level automation. He’s vendor-certified in Red Hat Linux and Cloudera and has a proven track record migrating and upgrading complex Big Data stacks and streaming infrastructures. Now leading DevOps teams in London, he bridges developer needs and platform reliability while keeping an eye on security and service mesh patterns. Outside work he’s a family person who still enjoys simple pleasures—hunting Pokémon and movie nights with popcorn—hinting at a pragmatic, curious engineering mindset.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (19)
kafka-connect10
kafka-rest10
swarm10
docker-image9
dotnet9
docker-compose9
java9
security9
charts9
kafka9
docker9
helm9
windows8
zookeeper8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ricardo-aires/helm-charts
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Collection of basic helm charts to be used in labs.
Contributions:1 review, 61 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 8 months
chartsschema-registryzookeeperhelmhelm-charts
ricardo-aires/docs
Feb 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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