Ricardo Martins
Principal Solutions Engineer, Digital Natives
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRicardo Martins is a Principal Solutions Engineer with nine years of cloud and platform experience, now focused on building, scaling, and hardening production-grade AI infrastructure at Microsoft. He blends deep hands-on skills in DevOps, frontend development, and Kubernetes with a track record of driving Azure adoption, cloud modernization, and FinOps-informed governance for startups and enterprises. He created widely used tooling and learning resources—like the Digital Native Azure Guide and a public Azure OpenAI PTU estimator—that have been adopted internally and externally to accelerate AI and cloud projects. Prior roles at Red Hat and across Microsoft show repeated wins in ARO/AKS reliability, hybrid-cloud strategy, and developer-first automation frameworks. Based in Florida, he pairs systems-level engineering with strong enablement instincts, authoring dozens of technical modules and newsletters to lift community capability. Notably, his career started in high-throughput media and payment systems, giving him rare operational experience with large-scale live workloads and PCI-sensitive platforms.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Electronics Technician, High School, Electronics Technician at Escola Técnica Estadual Henrique LageAttended Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering (Computer Networks and Distributed Systems), Attended Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering (Computer Networks and Distributed Systems) at UERJAssociate Degree, Computer Networking, Associate Degree, Computer Networking at Senac RJ
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (53)
javascript9
open-source9
flexbox9
curve8
react8
sneakers8
css8
background-image8
bulma7
gatsby7
sass7
leiningen7
red7
html7
graphql7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thenewdigitalschool/publishing-platform
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
A publishing platform for student showcase
Contributions:83 PRs, 310 pushes, 101 branches in 1 year 7 months
publishing-platformpublishingshowcase
cooperativa-tech/fkwl
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
A website for the From Kibera With Love non-profit organisation
Contributions:48 PRs, 157 pushes, 77 branches in 1 year 3 months
with-lovereactnon-profitprofittypescript
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