Samuel Torres
Staff Engineer Technical Architect - Platform Infrastructure
Vila Nova de Famalicão, Braga, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Torres is a Staff Engineer and Technical Architect specializing in platform infrastructure and distributed systems, with 11 years of experience building resilient cloud-native platforms from his base in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal. He progressed through successive engineering and leadership roles at Farfetch and Form3, evolving from junior developer to lead engineer for Kubernetes and now driving platform architecture at scale. Known for a curious, pragmatic approach, he blends hands-on implementation with strategic design to solve operational complexity in production systems. Samuel’s background in computer engineering and deep platform focus means he often bridges developer experience, orchestration, and reliability engineering in large financial and e-commerce environments.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Computer Engineering, Licentiate degree Computer Engineering at Universidade do Minho
English
Github Skills (90)
ebpf10
bpf10
cosign10
security10
k8s10
monitoring10
kubernetes-networking10
golang10
kubernetes10
observability10
kubernetes-cli10
kernel10
cni10
networking10
cli9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
samueltorres/r8limiter
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Envoy pluggable Rate Limiting Service
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 months
limitingenvoypluggablerate-limiting
samueltorres/dotfiles
Oct 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:1 review, 10 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 years 5 months
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