Tiago Ferreira
Expert Platform Engineer
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolTiago Ferreira is an Expert Platform Engineer with 13 years crafting internal developer platforms and automation to boost engineering throughput and reliability. Based in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, he’s built Kubernetes orchestration services, developer CLIs and CI/CD platforms across companies like Talkdesk, DefinedCrowd and Farfetch, working hands-on with Kotlin, Go and TypeScript. He combines a strong academic grounding in computer science and mathematics with practical leadership—having led multicultural DevOps teams to transform manual release processes into cloud-native continuous delivery. Tiago’s focus on developer experience and feedback-driven platform improvements means he not only ships infrastructure but also empowers teams to self-serve safely at scale. A pragmatic tinkerer, he prefers automating repetitive workflows so engineers spend more time building features than babysitting pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree Ciências da Computação, Licentiate degree Ciências da Computação at Universidade do Minho
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (95)
controller10
python10
automation10
infrastructure10
ingress-nginx10
remote-execution10
haproxy10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
scale10
event-stream10
kubernetes10
java-client10
configuration-management10
iot10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tacf/dotfiles
May 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
tacf/Portuguese-Native-MAC-OSX-Keyboard-Layout
Jun 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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