Porto, Porto, Portugal
Hi! I'm Pedro Campos, a seasoned and strategic leader with a wealth of experience in platform engineering within dynamic business landscapes. With a keen understanding of the intersection between technology and business objectives, I have consistently delivered exceptional results in complex IT environments. As a strategic thinker, I drive collaboration and optimize outcomes by aligning platform engineering initiatives with overarching business goals. I possess a remarkable ability to cultivate high-performing teams and nurture individual talent to maximize their potential. By implementing advanced DevOps methodologies, I foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, enabling teams to surpass expectations and deliver exceptional value. My proficiency lies in automating cloud infrastructure and deployment procedures, enabling organizations to achieve unparalleled efficiency, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. By strategically streamlining processes, I empower teams to focus on strategic initiatives, driving innovation and revenue growth. Throughout my career, I have demonstrated a talent for establishing engineering teams from the ground up, crafting robust processes and frameworks that propel organizations forward. My strategic mindset and deep industry knowledge ensure that the platform engineering function remains agile, adaptable, and at the forefront of industry advancements. I have a proven track record of implementing fully automated environments encompassing the entire development lifecycle, from initial development to continuous delivery and live systems. By embracing automation, I have significantly enhanced efficiency, reliability, and time to market, giving businesses a competitive edge. If my profile resonates with your organisation's vision, I invite you to connect with me via private message or email. Let's engage in a discussion about your business objectives, and how my strategic leadership in platform engineering can drive sustainable growth and success for your organisation.
During my most recent role, I am tasked with increasing efficiency and productivity by transforming BAU and support work to an organized and cross-functional engineering team. A small selection of the key achievements for this role have been: I have been instrumental in utilising technologies, such as VMWare, Azure, GitLab CI, Vault, Docker containers, Prometheus, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Jenkins, Nexus. • Assisted engineering team in streamlining processes and delivering the best software through development, testing, and deployment of new tooling. • Improved reliability and achieved cost-savings by steering the implementation of migration to the cloud through a well-defined rollout process with scalable solutions and procedures. • Achieved efficiency through implementation of 100% automated solutions and procedures. • Contributed to the hiring and development of a new team as well as restructuring of new processes.
This role allowed me to support and assess people through development and implementation of career path. Built DevOPS engineering team from scratch on an on-going train. I have utilised technologies, such as Azure, Prometheus, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana, Jenkins, GreyLog, PgSQL, OWASP Stack, Vault. Key achievement for this role is: • Automated cloud and deployments procedures that resulted in improving efficiency and scalability of processes.
In this role, I led the migration of existing platforms to multi-cloud providers by developing, testing, and deploying new infrastructure processes. I utilised technologies, including OpenShift, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Cinder, Prometheus, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana. A small selection of the key achievements for this role have been: • Leveraged expertise in establishing engineering teams from scratch and defining initial processes. • Improved efficiency and scalability of processes through automation of cloud and deployments procedures.
In this role, I ensured high-availability and scalability for web and database infrastructure, including multi-datacenter / availability zones. Delivered technical documentation and automations to company team members. Technology: IIS, HAProxy, Jenkins, Git, Ansible, Kubernetes, SQL Server 2016, Prometheus, Elastic Search, Kibana, Grafana. A small selection of the key achievements for this role have been: • Developed and implemented solutions for start-ups to accelerate the DevOPS principles and mind-set through management of an independent team of four engineers. • Increased efficiency and reliability through implementation and delivery of a fully automated environment, including development, continuous delivery, and live. • Streamlined the processes between software development and IT team by establishing and training a new DevOps team.
In this role, I streamlined all internal engineering projects and BAU tasks, including allocating resources and team members. Led the installation and improvement of company database operating environment, including development, quality assurance, continuous delivery, staging, and live. Technology: SQL Server 2016, Cassandra 3.11.1, Neo4J, Python, Ansible, Powershell, Kubernetes, Docker containers, Prometheus, MySQL, PostgreSQL, JIRA, Kibana, Grafana. A small selection of the key achievements for this role have been: • Drove organisation growth and devised database solutions as per the needs of stakeholders and engineering teams. • Maximised workflow efficiency by recruiting, training, mentoring, and managing a world-class team. • Improved team's collaboration and outcomes through development of DevOps methodology.
FARFETCH ∙ Portugal, 8/2014 - 11/2014, as Senior Sysadmin / Database Administrator, ALERT Life Science Computing, 3/2008 - 7/2014, as Support Engineer/Project Manager, SONAE, 3/2007 - 3/2008, as System Administrator/Database Administrator, CSB LDA, ∙ 11/2003 - 3/2007