Álvaro Ferreira Pires de paiva Platform Engineer

Site Operations Engineer

Tripadvisor

Oct 2023 - Current (3 years)

Tripadvisor is a company that operates online travel agencies, comparison shopping websites, and mobile apps with user-generated content.

- Reduced the costs of RDS instances by 60% using Lambda to optimize the management of clusters and databases on AWS.
- Converted Jenkins jobs from Multitop to Pipeline, permitting updates to more stable environment and plugins, boosting system reliability by 18%.
- Improved resource synthesis time in AWS deployment pipelines by 40% by coding filters for AWS CDK.

Senior Platform Engineer

Meliuz

Jul 2023 - Sep 2023 (3 months)

Méliuz operates in the context of cashback, and in 2022, it became a digital bank, offering additional financial services such as loans, Bitcoin cashback, and credit cards.

- Analyzed and reduced the number of MWAA workers used for DAGs, resulting in savings of approximately $750 per month.
- Developed the management of transactional notifications (email and push), allowing the company to notify more assertively, improving the customer experience.

Platform Engineer

Meliuz

Nov 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 8 months)

Méliuz operates in the context of cashback, and in 2022, it became a digital bank, offering additional financial services such as loans, Bitcoin cashback, and credit cards.

- Designed the migration of internal packages (Python and JavaScript) in on-premise company registries to CodeArtifact, allowing the platform team to save time for other tasks and reduce the cost by 16%.
- Reduced MWAA logging costs in CloudWatch from an estimated $2,500/month to less than $20/month by more efficiently configuring both environments, allowing for more assertive metrics.
- Created Shell scripts to enable integration of the development environment with cloud tools such as AWS SSO, ECR, CodeArtifact, etc, reducing the time developers nee

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Co-Founder

Fork Startup

Nov 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Health-tech startup, with as its main product a mobile application and a website for managing patients, finances, etc. Its target audience was physiotherapists.

- Incubated at Inova Metrópole (Natal-RN, Brazil), participating in some funding rounds and being part of the region's innovative ecosystem.
- Unfortunately, the product did not have traction and left the market after a year.

Back-end Developer

Central do Frete

Aug 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year 4 months)

A platform that promotes the connection between carriers and shippers.

- Created a volume-based freight calculation service, optimizing cargo packing and reducing space requirements, which slashed freight costs by 22%.
- Integrated APIs for real-time package tracking, enhancing customer satisfaction; increased software's value proposition, leading to a 15% rise in client retention.

Back-end Developer

Grt Inovações e Negócios

Dec 2019 - Aug 2020 (9 months)

Grt8 works in the context of smart cities and politics and provides applications that improve municipal bureaucratic processes.

- Led the standardization of customer software, applying best practices such as multi-tenancy, consequently improving the development flow to deliver improvements and functionality to customers.

Researcher and Developer

Laboratório de Inovação tecnológica em Saúde LAISHUOLUFRN

Feb 2016 - Dec 2020 (4 years 11 months)

LAIS is active in the healthcare field, offering services at various governmental levels (federal, state, and municipal), and has partnerships with universities worldwide.

- Implemented ELK stack and Hadoop data lake, integrating data from 3 databases (SIM, SIA, SIH) to support public policy development.
- Developed 5 web systems for different purposes, including monitoring the use of public money during the pandemic period; management and monitoring of patients in SUS; and academic management of RET-SUS.
- Collaborated in the development of a dashboard to monitor cases of the coronavirus (covid-19) in Rio Grande do Norte.

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