About Fernando
Cloud Engineer and Software / Integration Engineer with a strong background in designing, building, and operating cloud-native and hybrid solutions.
Over the past year, I have been working hands-on as a Cloud Engineer, mainly with AWS and Azure, covering networking, security, compute, storage, and platform services, using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
Before moving fully into cloud engineering, I spent several years as a Software and Integration Engineer, which gives me a strong understanding of application architecture, integration patterns, and the full software lifecycle. This background allows me to work effectively between development and infrastructure teams and design pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
I am comfortable operating across the full lifecycle — from design and implementation to automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement — and collaborating closely with development, security, DevOps and platform teams.
Key strengths:
- Cloud infrastructure design (AWS & Azure)
- API & integration platforms
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps
- Solid Networking and security fundamentals
- Application deployment and integration
Portuguese
Native or bilingual
English
Conversational
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- CONVATECCloud EngineerMEDICALJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 7 months)Lisbon, PortugalWorking as a Cloud Engineer with a strong focus on AWS and Azure, designing, implementing, and operating secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.Leveraging a strong development and integration background to support platform reliability and collaboration with application teams.Responsibilities & achievements:- Design and implementation of cloud networking architectures (AWS VPC / Azure VNet, subnets, routing, NAT, peering, Transit Gateway, private endpoints)- Implemented Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (and Bicep where applicable).- Worked with containerized workloads and cloud-native services.- Supported security, monitoring, and operational best practices.- Collaboration with development and DevOps teams to improve deployment, reliability, and securityTechnologies:- AWS: VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, Load Balancers, CloudFront, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Transfer Family, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, Certificate Manager, WAF, ECS, ECR, Fargate- Azure: VNet, Subnets, Routing, Peering, Private Endpoints, Front Door, SQL Server, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Function Apps, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Application Insights- Containers & Ops: Docker, Kubernetes (basic/operational)IaC & DevOps: Terraform, Bicep, GitHub, Azure DevOps
- CONVATECLead Cloud Integration EngineerMEDICALMarch 2021 - January 2025 (3 years and 10 months)Lisbon, PortugalLed cloud integration initiatives across Azure, AWS, and GCP, delivering secure, scalable, and automated API-based solutions.Highlights:- Led a team responsible for cloud integrations using Azure APIM, AWS API Gateway & Lambda, and GCP Apigee.- Designed secure API architectures using OAuth 2.0, OpenAPI, and GraphQL.- Standardized infrastructure and API provisioning using Terraform.- Automated the API lifecycle with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).- Built event-driven and real-time architectures using cloud-native messaging services.Technologies:- Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus- AWS API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront, SNS, SQS- GCP Apigee, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions- Terraform, CI/CD, DevOps, Github- OAuth2, REST, GraphQL, C#, Node.js
- LynxmindIntegration SpecialistBANKING AND INSURANCEJanuary 2019 - January 2021 (2 years)Lisbon, PortugalContributed to the modernization of Portugal’s POS and ATM systems within large-scale billing and CRM platforms.Technologies:- TIBCO, PostgreSQL, Java, Python
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Education
- Master in Computer ScienceUniversidade de Lisboa2007Master in Computer Science
- Bachelor in Computer ScienceUniversidade de Lisboa2006Bachelor in Computer Science