André N.

André N.

Senior Software Engineer

Portugal
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Work history

UpStack
UpStack
SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE Engineer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Ericsson
Ericsson
Sysadmin/DevOps OSS / BSS / IT & Cloud Engineer
2014 - 2018 (4 years)
Lisbon, Portugal
  • Offered expertise and guidance for on-premise and multi-cloud infrastructure builds involving containers with k8s Orchestrator for apps deployment (Microservices) and automating of workflows.

  • Engineered and developed business logics with the capacity to process 90 million (Kpdr/Day - CDRs) call data records per day On-Premise and on the Cloud for Ericsson.

  • Worked on the provisioning of the infrastructure to deploy apps for the processing of 60 TPS - transactions per second of throughput, and contributed to a better software delivery/deployments within the company.

Ribalnet
Ribalnet
Technical Maintenance and Support Engineer
2009 - 2009
  • Worked on the installation/maintenance of electronic equipment, offered expertise for network management, O.S administration and customer support.

  • Oversaw the installation of IP cabling Network infrastructures and worked on laptop hardware repairs.

  • Provided effective onsite and remote support and devised new ways to improve deployments on multiple computers in a parallel pre-Build O.S using the multicast network feature.

Engineering department at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
Engineering department at Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
Intern
2008 - 2008
Leiria, Portugal
  • Provided expertise for lab maintenance (Cisco Network/computers) and web development/maintenance on IPLeiria's website.

  • Managed tasks for the enhancement of the performance of IPLeiria's website using HTTP, JavaScript, CSS3 and PHP best practices for an optimum response.

  • Implemented a new server/client tool to update the client's hardware inventory automatically.

Portfolio

DevOps/SRE Integration Engineer - Vodafone Multi-Cloud Provisioning / Deployment
DevOps/SRE Integration Engineer - Vodafone Multi-Cloud Provisioning / Deployment

Provisioned the infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation, installed and configured CI/CD tools for developers to be able to deploy the containers automatically with Microservices using Ansible, Jenkin-X and Helm Charts. Used Git commands and GitHub repository customer accounts for the software versioning file control systems and multi-branch possibilities to the developer’s team. Implemented continuous monitoring and logging with Stackdrive for operations in the team. Used Nexus for the artefacts repository binaries, built packages and so on. The goal of the project was to use the pipeline workflows to build and deploy new software or updates with new features easily.

DevOps/Big Data Engineer - EDP IoT Big Data Cloud on Azure AKS Blue/Green Deployment
DevOps/Big Data Engineer - EDP IoT Big Data Cloud on Azure AKS Blue/Green Deployment

Developed the AKS infrastructure with Ansible, prepared the Azure Cloud environment for collecting, processing and distributing data using HDInsight Kafka connectors, Spark for handling/processing the traffic and distributing/storing in a horizontal scalable CassandraDB to visualize data in Zeppelin or Kibana dashboards. All of these services are deployed on a provisioned k8s cluster also running the Nginx Ingress Controller, Jenkins, Helm Charts, Sensu for monitoring, ELK stack for logging and data visualization. All used files (configurations/variables definitions and so on) are stored in a GitHub customer account.

DevOps/SRE Engineer - NOS HA Kops/k8s AWS Cluster Deployment
DevOps/SRE Engineer - NOS HA Kops/k8s AWS Cluster Deployment

Built the VPC with Terraform and provisioned a k8s cluster using Kops and Ansible and configured the security of the AWS cloud. After implementing the k8s cluster, worked on the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline workflow used to build the helm charts stored in a S3 bucket with microservices/containers, that includes scalable, reliable and self-healing apps modules that can be deployed fast and automatically (easy for the development team to launch new software and features with the rolling out of updates). New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana were used for continuous monitoring and Splunk was used for continuous logging to help the operations team.

System Big Data Engineer - Altice MSSs and Big Data Analysis (Hybrid Cloud)
System Big Data Engineer - Altice MSSs and Big Data Analysis (Hybrid Cloud)

Developed the infrastructure for two clusters (AWS and OpenStack) to deploy the O.S and Veritas cluster to install the multi mediation product using the online and offline (FE) modules. Worked on the Business logic development for collection from the input nodes on the data traffic to be processed/stored and analyzed by the customer (Altice).

Solution Architect and System Integrator - Unitel IMS/VoLTE Charging Solution
Solution Architect and System Integrator - Unitel IMS/VoLTE Charging Solution

Worked on the solution after the hardware was installed; provisioning the components for deployment and configurations until the cluster and Ericsson Multi Mediation were both working correctly. Developed and Built the business logic for the Ro interface.

Education

Education
Red Hat Linux System Admin II
Source of Knowledge - Formação, Educação e Consult
2014 - Present (10 years)
Education
CCNA Security - 640-554 IINS
Cisco
2014 - 2017 (3 years)
Education
Cisco CCNA 200-120 Routing and Switching
Cisco
2014 - 2017 (3 years)
Education
Energias
ACADEMIA APAMM
2013 - Present (11 years)
Education
Erasmus (BSc. Undergraduate in Telecom and IT/Networking Engineering)
Polytechnika Warszawska
2013 - 2013
Education
BSc. Telecom and IT/Networking Engineering
Polytechnic of Leira - School of Technology and Management
2010 - 2013 (3 years)
Education
Technical Degree, Specialization in Network Management
Polytechnic of Leira - School of Technology and Management
2006 - 2008 (2 years)
Education
Degree in IT Technician and Maintenance
Technical School and Professional of Ribatejo
2003 - 2006 (3 years)
Education
Cisco CCNP - CCNP Switch: Implementing IP Switching
Cisco
Education
Cisco CCNP - CCNP Route: Implementing IP Route
Cisco
Education
Cisco CCNA Security - Implementing Cisco IOS Network Security (IINS)
Cisco
Education
Cisco CCNA Exploration Routing and Switching - Routing Protocols and Concepts
Cisco
Education
Cisco CCNA Exploration Routing and Switching - Network Fundamentals
Cisco
Education
Cisco CCNA Exploration Routing and Switching - LAN Switching and Wireless
Cisco
Education
Cisco CCNA Exploration Routing and Switching - Accessing the WAN
Cisco