Summary
Samuel Portela is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Amsterdam with 15+ years of hands-on experience delivering secure, automated CI/CD and cloud migrations for large enterprises. He has led migrations to private cloud and modernized deployment pipelines at ING and Philips, maintaining dozens of production applications while enforcing security, performance and lifecycle controls. Fluent in tooling from Jenkins, TFS/Azure DevOps and Ansible Tower to Docker, Prometheus, Grafana and the ELK stack, he pairs scripting (Bash, Python) and configuration-as-code to reduce operational toil. His background as a full-stack developer and Oracle Certified Java Programmer enables him to bridge application and infrastructure concerns, troubleshoot deep performance issues, and author custom Jenkins integrations. International experience and past leadership—ranging from CMMI process adoption to leading a nine-person team—underscore his ability to deliver repeatable, auditable systems. He’s also quietly experimental: he runs many personal projects on DigitalOcean and is actively exploring AWS to complement his private-cloud expertise.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, J2EE, Specialist, J2EE at Universidade de Fortaleza
Graduated, Systems Analysis and Development, Graduated, Systems Analysis and Development at Faculdade Integrada do Ceará
English, Portuguese