Ricardo Oliva
Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Oliva is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Waterloo, Ontario with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud infrastructure at scale, currently at Google after progressing from technical solutions and big data platform roles. He combines hands-on SRE practice with a background in support, systems administration and solution architecture, giving him a strong operational mindset across the full stack. Ricardo has contributed to open-source tooling documentation and DevOps tasks for tmuxp, demonstrating attention to developer experience and environment configuration. His cross-industry experience—from startups to enterprise security and cloud—means he’s comfortable translating customer-facing incidents into durable platform improvements. Notably, he pairs formal training (MongoDB and web development certifications) with long-term operational instincts honed since early UNIX administration roles.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Full Stack Web Development Certification at Free Code CampPost Graduate Certificate, Post Graduate Certificate at University of Warwick - Warwick Business SchoolThe SANS InstituteBachelors, Bachelors at Universidade Católica do SalvadorMongoDB Administrator Training, MongoDB Administrator Training at MongoDB UniversityCertification, Certification at The University of British Columbia
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
tmux10
python10
documentation10
yaml9
cli9
testing8
cicd8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tmux-python/tmuxp
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
🖥️ Session manager for tmux, build on libtmux.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & DevOps Engineer
Technical Writer & DevOps EngineerContributions:36 commits, 19 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily focused on improving the project's documentation, including updating the "developing" guide to incorporate pipenv instructions, correcting formatting issues, and refining existing documentation sections. Their contributions also included ensuring correct encoding settings and fixing issues related to environment variables, indicating a familiarity with build processes and environment configuration, commonly associated with DevOps tasks. The user also made small code corrections related to the testing configuration.
yamlpythontmuxlinuxsession-manager
rfoliva/pdf-downloader
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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