Hello, I'm Danilo Falcão da Silva
Senior DevOps Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer
I'm Danilo Falcão da Silva, a technology professional with over 20 years of experience based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. I have honed my skills across a diverse range of industries, including ISP, Web Hosting, Software Development, Public Sector, Telecom, and FinTech. My expertise spans multiple operating systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Illumos/SmartOS, complemented by strong Bash scripting abilities.
Throughout my career I've demonstrated a passion for designing, planning, and optimizing network and system infrastructures. I take pride in my ability to deliver high-quality solutions efficiently, often leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and various cloud platforms.
Years Experience
Projects
VMs Managed
Leading DevOps consulting services for businesses across Brazil, US, and Europe. Designed and deployed enterprise VMware virtualization platform supporting 500+ virtual machines with 99.99% uptime. Implemented Elasticsearch as backbone of real-time analytics dashboard processing 5TB+ daily log data.
Rebuilt infrastructure from scratch using Docker. Deployed & configured micro-services in AWS. Implemented blue/green deployments and CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins. Used SaltStack for configuration management of numerous EC2 instances.
Initial role focusing on infrastructure modernization and containerization strategies for the cloud-based corporate engagement platform.
Managed deployment & configuration of business solutions in Oracle Cloud (Primary) & AWS (Secondary). Provided technical advisory to product delivery teams and ensured compliance with IT controls and security standards for petroleum distribution operations.
Designed, built, and managed all public cloud-based infrastructures for telecom operations. Responsible for technical direction and platform implementation, treating infrastructure as code and managing it accordingly.
Provided IT consulting services in Dublin, Ireland. Focused on Alpine Linux-based systems administration, virtualization (Xen & KVM), Docker/Containers, and maintaining OpenShift Dedicated environment for Kubernetes testing.
Managed multi-PaaS environments (AWS, Rackspace, Azure) for cross-border payment solutions. Administered SQL/No-SQL database clusters and Illumos systems for financial institutions across multiple platforms.
Led infrastructure implementation and coordination for real-time scoring technology company. Responsible for driving technology innovation, global adoption, integration, and R&D of emerging technologies in big data and machine learning environments.
Optimized applications in distributed systems to maximize performance. Maintained infrastructure while adding new features using open-source technologies, focusing on frequent incremental code testing and deployment.
Troubleshot and repaired problems in LEMP platforms for the leading online food delivery marketplace in emerging markets. Operated web, database, and application servers while implementing automation of frequent work processes.
Managed large scale distributed systems for leading smartphone manufacturer. Handled 24x7 on-call support, software releases of SNG & Digital Vault services, with direct customer liaison and NOC support.
Specialized in full e-commerce outsourcing infrastructure. Installed and maintained hardware/software in Linux environments, managed data backups and disaster recovery operations, and developed automation scripts for LAMP platform applications.
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