Paulo Canilho

Experiences

Senior Software (DevOps) Engineer

Nexthink

Feb 2020 - Present, Switzerland

Nexthink is a global leader in digital experience management. Our product allows enterprises to create highly productive digital workplaces for their employees by delivering optimal end-user experience.

Responsibilities:

Contributor to various open-source projects - https://github.com/pcanilho/gh-tidy - https://github.com/isometry/platform-health - https://github.com/pcanilho/argocd-sync-timeout - https://github.com/martinbaillie/vault-plugin-secrets-github - etc.
CI/CD implementation from the ground-up on AWS (e.g. EKS, ECR, etc.).
Release manifest driven deployment, CI and CD with ArgoCD w/ Kustomize + Helm. - Advanced CD orchestrator based on ApplicationSet(s) w/ Cluster-Generators + Helm-based GitOps.
Jenkins + Helm + Groovy + NewRelic pipelining.
Golang Kubernetes custom operators/controllers.
Terragrunt + Terraform + cdktf

Full-stack Software Engineer

CERN

Jan 2018 - Feb 2020, Switzerland

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research.

Responsibilities:

Deployment of HTCondor in CloudStack & OpenStack using Terraform – HNSciCloud project.
Full-Stack development of an accounting system for HTCondor in GoLang and Vue.JS.
Main contributor to the load balancer client developed using GoLang & integration with collectd.
Contributor to machine-learning project of ElasticSearch using Python, Tensorflow & Keras.
Main developer of the HAPaaS (HAProxy-as-a-Service) at CERN; built in Go and Kurbernetes.

Software Engineer

ClearReturn Ltd.

Apr 2016 - Nov 2016, United Kingdom

Clear Returns provide robust data analysis to identify the real causes and costs of your returns, and the tools that help you proactively respond. Our market wide view means you can tap into authoritative, tried and tested recommendations fast.

Responsibilities:

Java REST full-stack development using ODATA standards for e-commerce system integration.
Responsible for the extraction-transformation-load process for handling big-data ingestion and processing using Redshift SQL dialect.
Responsible for the DevOps of internal process automation involving S3 and Redshift integration.
Responsible for the security measures implementation at all stages of the development lifecycle.

CERN

Jun 2014 - Jan 2016, Switzerland

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research.

Telecommunications & Computer Engineer

Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

Deployment of 4G networks on all CERN grounds, including, the LHC tunnel and other experimental areas.
System integration of a mobile monitoring solution with CERN’s Swisscom provider network, including SNMP alarms setup and management queries using MSSQL.

Android developer

Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

Creation of two mobile applications for Android for real-time monitoring system over the hardware components such as the linear accelerator detectors.
Server-side implementation using Java for data management and network capabilities handling.

Research assistant

Microsoft PT

Mar 2013 - Jun 2014, Portugal

Responsibilities:

Research of shape-grammars implementation in code
Common Lisp implementation of a shape-grammars engine using LispWorks + Java Swing

Projects

golbclient

Main contributor March 2018 - Feb 2020

Highly-configurable, distributed and stand-alone load-balancing client that generates a metric per configured aliases based on configured rules.

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go-jira-cli

Creator & Maintainer June 2021 - Present

Used in production in Nexthink to assist with SOC Type-2 & ISO 270001 certifications. A Command-Line-Interface to manage change-management in Jira (Server & Cloud), manage issues, translate users from GDPR protected format back to username, etc.

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go-prom-cli

Creator & Maintainer July 2021 - Present

Used in production in Nexthink to monitor Jenkins pipelines through Groovy driven shared-library functions. A Command-Line-Interface to push any type of metrics, with correlated labels/parameters, to an existing prometheus Push-Gateway.

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Rocket.Chat-cli

Maintainer Oct 2020 - Present

An Open Source command-line interface implementation made in GoLang for Rocket.Chat. Particularly useful when backing up all chat history in a channels and/or groups.

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terraform-provider-okta

Contributor Nov 2020 - Present

Active user and contributor for the terraform provider code for Okta. With particular emphasis in bringing new functionality to the existing codebase.

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