Thales Menato is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in Python, infrastructure as code, and developer experience, currently enhancing developer platforms at Glydways. He is a Linux advocate who runs NixOS daily and has recently been exploring Nix and Go while championing tools like pre-commit, ruff, just and devenv to boost team productivity. Thales has led cross-team infrastructure initiatives—standardizing CI/CD across GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI and Jenkins, modularizing Terraform for reusability, and driving cost, security and observability improvements in AWS and multi-cloud environments. He has hands-on history moving services from monorepos to polyrepo (and vice versa), modernizing build pipelines with pants/bazel, and reducing operational costs through architectural and database optimizations. Beyond engineering, he has managed and mentored teams, launched infrastructure teams within organizations, and maintains a homelab where he experiments with orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate Computer Science, Undergraduate Computer Science at Florida State University
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at UFSCar - Alumni
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo
Contributions:8 PRs, 26 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 11 months
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Thales Menato - Senior Software Engineer at Glydways