Thomas Gouveia

As IoTerop's sole SRE, I spearheaded establishing cloud foundations for a globally deployed, scalable, resilient, and high-performing IoT platform. This optimized customer access and ensured compliance with legal constraints. Upon joining IoTerop, I transitioned the production environment from EC2 to Kubernetes, streamlining with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). With fully codified processes, adjustments and deployments across regions are effortless via automated CI/CD. This migration halved cloud expenses and accelerated time-to-market while maintaining platform performance and availability. I architected and deployed a multi-region observability framework to centralize logs, metrics, and traces, enabling swift issue detection, origin identification, and correlation across environments. This empowers teams to efficiently troubleshoot and resolve issues by leveraging comprehensive observability data. As the foremost DevOps authority within the company, I drove the dissemination of DevOps philosophy and best practices through frequent training sessions and workshops. These initiatives aimed to promote the "You Build It You Run It" principle and enhance team accountability towards the platform. Internally, I initiated the development of a platform enabling teams to swiftly deploy ephemeral instances for remote application development, eliminating the necessity of running the stack locally. This streamlined approach has substantially expedited feature development, consequently slashing the time-to-market.