Nelson Joaquim

Accelerating Digital Transformation with Kubernetes in Cloud environments

Cologne Bonn Region

About

Responsible for leading architecture, information management and cloud computing product architectures, implementation and delivery across a suite of hosted services. Providing individual and team leadership expertise across all products and platforms. Developing reference architecture and Cloud strategy and conduct proof-of-concepts, developing prototypes and reference models. Member of Vodafone technology experts community Vodafone Subject Matter Expert in Containers/Kubernetes Technical Skills: • AWS and Microsoft Azure • Kubernetes, Docker, Helm • Linkerd, Istio • Terraform • GIT, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube • Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk

Experience

  • Vodafone (21 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Architect
      Jul 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

      Senior Cloud and Automation Architect • Container based solutions with Kubernetes on AWS and GCP • Infrastructure and Application automation design • Designing/Implementing/Integrating MvP/PoC to drive innovation • Creator of Cloud and Kubernetes knowledge base articles Communities: • Vodafone technology experts community • Security Chapter • Development and CI/CD Tooling Guild

    • Product Owner
      Sep 2016 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Product Owner of Container Platform and DevOps Automation • Manage On-Shore and Off-Shore Team in Scrum Methodology • Architect and design full container solution based in Kubernetes • Manage container platform in AWS and on-prem, provisioning and onboarding new customers • Manage DevOps and Kubernetes tooling to serve customers Hands-on experience in the following: • AWS Services • Kubernetes, Docker (Containers) • Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube (DevOps Tooling) • Prometheus, Nagios, Icinga (Monitoring) • Grafana, Splunk, LogStash (Reporting)

    • Technical Team Lead
      May 2012 - Sep 2016 · 4 yrs 5 mos

      • Service Improvement (Evaluation of new tools/software components in regards to monitoring, reporting, performance, deployment, operability, capacity management) • Deliver innovations & proofs of concept regarding the enhanced features, products, services and new capabilities • Review of Product specification (clear, unambiguous and realistic) with a clear position on operational impacts and efforts • Input into Product or solution design documents (e.g. technical recommendations, component design) • Interface with Vendors, Development, Integration, Architecture & Design Teams Main projects • Datapower migration to Redhat Jboss Fuse • Setting up geo-resilience on-prem datacenters • Platform migration to Cloud environment Technology • TIBCO BE/BW, EMS, HAWK/RTView, Spotfire • IBM Datapower • RedHat Jboss Fuse

  • Consultant at Sybase
    Mar 2004 - May 2008 · 4 yrs 3 mos