Ricardo Pardini
DevOps Engineer at RPTech
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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RockstarRicardo Pardini is a DevOps engineer with over 20 years of experience building and operating web applications and core platforms, currently freelancing from Amsterdam with 13 years of formal experience. He specializes in cloud-neutral provisioning and automation, Kubernetes on both cloud and bare metal, and resilient infrastructure (Rook/Ceph, Envoy, HA setups) for production-grade systems. A long-time remote worker and EU citizen originally from Brazil, he blends hands-on implementation with knowledge transfer for small teams and prefers to be paid for coordination rather than the coding itself. His open-source work includes a Docker registry proxy that added multi-architecture builds, mitmproxy debugging support, and IPv6/resolv.conf improvements, reflecting practical expertise in container tooling and edge networking. He also contributes to Armbian’s build framework, bringing low-level Linux and non-x86 architecture experience into his infrastructure toolkit. Not seeking C-level roles or relocation, he focuses on pragmatic, security-minded deployments and automation.
13 years of coding experience
English, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch
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Github Skills (28)
bootloader10
github-ci10
docker10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
dockers10
kernel10
device-tree10
dts10
u-boot10
sys10
kernel-mode10
boot10
dt10
loader10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rpardini/docker-registry-proxy
Nov 2018 - Sep 2021
An HTTPS Proxy for Docker providing centralized configuration and caching of any registry (quay.io, DockerHub, registry.k8s.io, ghcr.io)
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 14 reviews, 66 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Docker registry proxy's functionality and debugging capabilities. They implemented features to enable debugging using `mitmproxy`, including setting up reverse proxies and configuring SSL settings. The user also worked on build and deployment processes by introducing multi-architecture builds using GitHub Actions, and refactored configurations for manifest caching. Furthermore, they addressed IPv6 compatibility and improved the resolv.conf parsing.
quayca-certificateproxydockerhubhttps-proxy
armbian/build
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Armbian Linux build framework generates custom Debian or Ubuntu image for x86, aarch64, riscv64 & armhf
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:563 reviews, 1180 commits, 718 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily focused on building and maintaining the Linux-based boot framework, generating custom Debian or Ubuntu images for multiple Rockchip SoCs. They implemented support for various features and hardware, including networking support, Bluetooth and WiFi, and enhanced the performance of bootloaders and boot processes. In addition to this, they implemented system modifications by adding code to the kernel for the system to work.
kerneldocker-imagearchlinuxkernel-compilationlinux-kernel
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