Guto Carvalho

Brasilia, Brazil | guto@carvalho.life

Cloud Native Engineer

About me

I have been here a long time. I started to work with computers back in the '90s. My first OS was MS-DOS 6.0, and my first window manager was Windows 3.1. I used to connect to the internet using those noisy 14.400mbps modems from US Robotics, and IRC was the best way to chat with our friends :)

I have a sysadmin soul plus network and Linux skills combined with agile culture, I'm also a DevOps Enthusiast, GitOps Practitioner, and Cloud-Native believer.

I've done so many things during my digital journey. I've worked as a Sysadmin, Network engineer, Linux engineer, Advisor for the Federal Government, Consultor, Entrepreneur, Infrastructure developer (Infra as code), and GitOps engineer. Now I'm working as a Cloud Native Engineer, currently living in Brasília, DF, Brazil.

My interests range from infrastructure as code (IaC), DevOps, GitOps, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, ChatOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile principles.

My goals

I want to help companies extract more from their infrastructure, innovate, and seek creative and intelligent solutions that add value to their teams, projects, products, and customers.

Exciting things about my work

In 2011, I presented an automation case using IaC inside a Brazilian Executive Federal Government agency called EBC, probably the first one.
I was one of the first professionals to write and talk about DevOps and automation (IaC) in Brazil back in 2011-2012.
I was one of the disseminators of the DevOps Culture inside the Brazilian Federal Government.
In 2012-2013, I dived Into the DevOps Principles and Community, and back then, I started to follow Patrick Debois and John Willis adventures, trying to use their experience in Brazil.
I was part of the team that built the first private cloud of Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil.
In two of my recent projects, I was able to help the Ministry of Health and Superior Justice Tribunal enter the Cloud Native era. I designed the architecture and deployed several k8s clusters for their APPs and systems (dev, stg, test, pre-prod, prod), now they are moving from legacy to Cloud Native.

Exciting things about my IT adventures

I held two devopsdays in Brasilia city, Brazil's Capital.
I was invited to open two DevOpsDays in Brazil, one in Porto Alegre, and another in Goiania, and I was honored and very proud to be in both places. This one of those things that is very significant in our lives, and I'll remember those days forever.
I've trained more than 500 people on IaC in the last 10 years.
I've been blogging for almost 15 years about IT and general stuff.
I've given more than 150 talks in the last 10 years.
I'm a regular speaker in several Brazil IT Conferences.

Exciting things about my personal life

I grew up in the mid-west of Brazil in a state called 'Mato Grosso do Sul' near the Bolivia and Paraguay borders. In that state, I lived in Pantanal Sul (South Swaplands). In that time, I had the opportunity to experience nature and wildlife, ride horses and swim in rivers with fish, snakes, alligators, birds, reptiles, and various mammals — a magical and amazing time of my life.
In my young adult life, I decided to move to Brasilia to find new challenges and learn more about mission-critical systems, especially those from the Federal Government, and I have been here since then.
Now I'm 41 and I have two kids, a dog and a cat :)
Besides the IT life and digital culture, I love to do mountain bike and karate-do!

See more information about me here. (portuguese only)

Contact me

Most relevant experiences from the last years

DNSFilter.com

Platform EngineerMar, 2022 — Present;

Working as a Platform Engineer, maintaning and operating the platform of the DNSFilter SaaS. Handling 35 bilions of transactions day. We're also moving several baremetal services to EKS and EC2.

Technologies

Git
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub
Slab
Confluence
Jira
Datadog
ZenDesk
CircleCI
Kafka
Redis
ClickHouse
PostgreSQL
MySQL
Rundeck
Wazuh
NewRelic
Kubernetes
Keda
CloudFlare
CertManager
Ingress
Nginx
Helm
Velero
AWS (S3/EC2/RDS/Route53/EKS/ECR/IAM)
Bash/Shell
Python/Ruby for Ops automation

VMFARMs/Stack.io

Cloud EngineerOct, 2021 — Jan 2022;

Working as a Cloud Native Engineer, offering Kubernetes professional services, mostly using AWS and EKS.

Technologies

Git
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
GitHub
GitBook
ZenHub
ZenDesk
CircleCI
ShipIt
Ejson
Kubernetes
Keda
CloudFlare
CertManager
Ingress
Nginx
Helm
Velero
AWS (S3/EC2/RDS/Route53/EKS/ECR/IAM)
Bash/Shell
Python for Ops automation

JAC Experts

Cloud Native EngineerApr, 2019 — Oct, 2021;

Responsible for automate deployment, designing infrastructure and support development teams to delivery their products to customers, mostly using onprem k8s.

Technologies

Git
Docker
Terraform
Ansible
Ingress
Nginx
Rancher
RKE
LongHorn
GitLab
Harbor
Velero
Minio
Loki
Prometheus
Grafana
NextCloud
WikiJS
CloudFlare
AWS (S3/EC2/RDS/Route53/EKS/ECR/IAM)
Bash/Shell
Python for OPs automation

Instruct

Infrastructure as Code EngineerMay, 2014 — Marc, 2019;

Responsible for automate deployment, designing infrastructure and support development teams to delivery their products to customers, mostly using puppet.

Technologies

Git
GitLab
Nexus
Zabbix
Puppet
MatterMost
NextCloud
Dokuwiki
ProxMox
OVH Cloud
Bash/Shell
Python for Ops automation
Ruby for Ops automation

Globalweb (+2x)

Linux SpecialistMay 2013 — May, 2015;

Responsible for Linux infrastructure and services of several federal governmet clients. My main goal was to reduce risks and migrate manual procedures to automation tasks using Puppet and Shell.

4Linux

Linux SpecialistMay 2012 — May, 2013;

Responsible for Linux infrastructure and services of several private sector clients. As a Linux Specialist, I helped the company clients to achieve better results with their Linux infrastructure. My main goal was to reduce risks and migrate manual procedures to automation tasks using Puppet and Shell.

Tecnisys

Linux SpecialistSep 2011 — Oct, 2012;

As a Linux Specialist, I helped the company clients to achieve better results with their Linux infrastructure. My main goal was to reduce risks and migrate manual procedures to automation tasks using Puppet and Shell resources.

Dataprev

IT AdvisorSep 2010 — Oct, 2011;

I worked with the infrastructure director supporting him in the management of 3 datacenters of the federal government that run all software related to public pension. More than 35 million payments were processed monthly for Brazilians, with more than 25 million receipts of social security taxes.

See detailed information about my experiences here and here. (portuguese only)

My most relevant certifications

Rancher Operator Level 1

3200de73ce8245348d4bf4ff5194f6d5

Rancher

Pupper Certified Professional

PCP204-0052

Puppet

Certified Scrum Master

000688337

Scrum Alliance

RedHat Certified Engineer

140-019-704

RedHat

RedHat Certified System Administrator

140-019-704

RedHat

RedHat Certified JBOSS Administrator

140-019-704

RedHat

Zabbix Certified Professional

23-01-15

Zabbix

Zabbix Certified Specialist

21-01-15

Zabbix

See detailed information about my certifications here. (portuguese only)

Trainings I attended and liked

See detailed information about my trainings here. (portuguese only)

Recommendations

Matheus Brescia

Cloud Engineer at stack.io

One excellent engineer, we worked side-by-side in a bunch of solutions. Have a huge understand of the whole picture of IT, a Linux lover as I am. Have a good learning curve, at least the things I taught he got quickly and learned a lot from him too. Great asset to any company.

Alexis Soto Maior

Cloud Engineer at vmfarms.com

Worked with Guto for a few months. Guto has been a while in this IT world. He is the kind of professional who has the mindset towards optimization and digital transformation. He is usually thinking outside the box to match the perfect solution to a problem, working restlessly to deliver the best.

Daniel Sobral

Software Engineer at Google.com

Guto is the most productive engineer I have ever worked with, as well as the most organized one. He approaches all tasks methodically, keeps track of every task he has to do in order to accomplish the activities he is performing, researches topics as needed, documents steps as he performs them, and, at the end, delivers the completed activity plus relevant documentation of everything he learned or did.

See more recommendations from linkedin here.

Kubernetes cases that I'm proud of

DNSFilter

Cloud Native Engineer

Member of the team in charge of moving apps from BareMetal (Linux APPs) to AWS EKS

Tools/Work

Infra automation with terraform
APP Dockerization
Creation of the K8S Manifests
Creation of the CircleCI Pipeline for Image Build
EKS Management
Keda for autoscaling
CloudFlare for DNS
DataDog for monitoring

TheScore

Cloud Native Engineer

Member of the team in charge of moving apps from EC2 (Linux APPs) to AWS EKS

Tools/Work

Infra automation with terraform
APP Dockerization
Creation of the K8S Manifests
Creation of the CircleCI Pipeline for Image Build
Creation of the Shipit stack for APP Delivery
EKS Management
Keda for autoscaling
CloudFlare for DNS
DataDog for monitoring
Splunk for logs

RNP

Cloud Native Engineer

Responsible for moving from OnPremisses K8S Cluster to AWS EKS

Tools/Work

Infra automation with terraform
K8S Architecture Design
APP Dockerization
Creation of the K8S Manifests
Creation of the Helm Charts
GitLabCI for Image Build
GitLabCI for APP Delivery
Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
Loki for Cluster Logs
EKS Management
Harbor for Registry
Rancher for clusters management

Ministry of Health

Cloud Native Engineer

Responsible for moving from OpenShift to RKE Clusters

Tools/Work

K8S Architecture Design
Instalation of five clusters (dev, staging, pre-prod, prod, test)
Creation of the K8S Manifests
Creation of the Helm Charts
GitLabCI for Image Build
GitLabCI for APP Delivery
Cloud Native Storage with Longhorn
Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
Loki for Cluster Logs
Nexus for Registry
Rancher for clusters management
MatterMost for ChatOps

Superior Justice Tribunal

Cloud Native Engineer

Moving from Linux Instances on VMWARe to RKE Clusters

Tools/Work

K8S Architecture Design
Instalation of 3 clusters (dev, staging, prod)
Creation of the K8S Manifests
Creation of the Helm Charts
GitLabCI for Image Build
GitLabCI for APP Delivery
Cloud Native Storage with Longhorn
Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
Loki for Cluster Logs
Nexus for Registry
Rancher for clusters management
Zabbix for clusters management
MatterMost for ChatOps

JAC Experts

Cloud Native Engineer

Responsible for the design and cluster implementaion

Tools/Work

K8S Architecture Design
Instalation of 2 clusters (staging, prod)
Creation of the K8S Manifests
Creation of the Helm Charts
GitLabCI for Image Build
GitLabCI for APP Delivery
Cloud Native Storage with Longhorn
Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
Loki for Cluster Logs
Nexus for Registry
Rancher for clusters management
Zabbix for infra monitoring
MatterMost for ChatOps

See detailed information about my projects here. (portuguese only)

Communities that I'm part of

Continuous Delivery Foundation

Ambassador for 2022

It's a new, neutral organization that will grow and sustain an open continuous delivery ecosystem.

DevOpsDays Brasil Committee

Organizer from the Brasilia City

User group to discuss how to organize DevOpsDays Events in Brazil.

DevOpsDays Brasilia

Organizer

Community resposible for the DevOpsDays Brasilia Events.

DevOps-BR

Co-Founder

User group to discuss about DevOps and related tools.

GitOps Brasil

Founder

User group to discuss about GitOps Practices e and related tools.

Cloud Native Brasil

Founder

User group to discuss about Cloud Native and related tools.

See detailed information about my community activities here. (portuguese only)

Set/20

Campus Party

Virtual

Jul/20

FiqueEmCasaConf

Virtual

Apr/20

See detailed information about events that I attended here. (portuguese only)

Most recent talk's I'm proud of

How to scale to 35 bilions transactions a DAY

DevOpsDays Fortaleza, 2022

An introduction to our last project and scenario scaling a SaaS using DevOps and GitOps.

The container Revolution, from CHROOT to Cloud Native

Semana de Capacitação NIC.BR, 5º Edição

A journey through the container's history and the Cloud Native Revolution

Deploy techniques

DevOpsDays Goiania, 2021

An introduction to Canary, Green/Blue, Rollout, A/B and other techniques

Cloud-Native and the Kubernetes revolution

Campus Party, 2020

An introduction to Cloud-Native and Kubernetes, the benefits, the challenges, and the expectations.

From the commit to deploy with Kubernetes and GitLab CI

LinuxTips FicaEmCasaCOnf, 2020

A hands-on to create a pipeline to deliver an APP in any Kubernetes cluster.

10 Years of DevOps Culture

DevOpsDays Goiania, 2019

Chat about ten years of DevOps, what has changed, what may change, and where we are going

Converging from Chaos to DevOps

DevCamp, 2018

Case about a company changes during their DevOps journey.

See detailed information about my talks here and here . (portuguese only)

Recent studies and investigations

Service Mesh, Istio vs Linkerd

One of my clients asked me to compare Istio and Linkerd and present the differences.

Status: Presentation created and presented. See here!

EKS DR Strategies

One of my clients asked me to investigate some DR strategies for EKS after AWS 2022 Jan Outage.

Status: Presentation created and presented. See here

Keda

Trying to learn more about this projetct, it seems to be a really nice tool for pod scaling automation.

Status: Some lab tests, need to do more tests...

ArgoCD vs FLux vs Tekton vs Flagger vs Werf

I want to test all of it and create a talk to show the results

Status: Working on!

Keptn

A friend told me about Keptn and the SLO/SLA triggers for deploy and rollback

Status: Next thing to test and write about it.

Recognition

Continuous Integration Ambassador for 2022

• 2022

Invited for the work with CICD in Brazil.

Best Puppet Partner of the Year

• 2017

Awarded for the work with Puppet in Brazil.

Additional Links

Social Links

Github: https://github.com/gutocarvalho
Website: http://gutocarvalho.net