Rafael Lopes

Rafael Lopes de Freitas

Senior Cloud Technologist

Also, a photographer

New York, NY

Works with Amazon Web Services

Summary

I am a Solutions Architect, Curriculum Developer, Technical Trainer and Technology Evangelist in the USA and Brazil with experience on multi-national, multi-disciplined, geographically-distributed teams of technology producers and consumers. I focus my career on being an innovative technology leader that drives solutions based on scalability. I like building things that need to get big. Whether that is technology or a business, I am interested in how to scale them. I am proud to be involved with Amazon Web Services and that we have been able to help businesses around the globe. I value teamwork, integrity, and ownership coupled with a positive, can-do attitude to manage large scale projects and client relationships, leveraging years of technical expertise in Startup operations, IT and security to bridge the gap between technical and business areas.

Work History

  • 2015

    Amazon Inc. - USA

    Senior Cloud Technologist

    (2015 - Present) | New York, NY - USA

    In this role, I am determined to share as much knowledge as possible around the world. By leveraging MOOC platforms that reach hundreds of thousands of customers in multiple geographies, I can democratize my AWS Technical Trainer and Solutions Architect experiences to provide quality learning, accessible to everyone with Internet access.

  • 2012

    PSafe Technology Inc.

    Infrastructure Manager

    (2012 - 2015) | Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil

    Provide executive leadership and ownership as the head of the TI Infrastructure. IT system analysis and architect, providing the technology architecture, integration, design, coordination and leadership for the integration of the technology systems. IT Architect performing strategic analysis to determine cost effective approaches to integrate the main elements of all company's products. Responsible for end-to-end technology initiatives. Direct liaison and program manager between technologists and the CEO/CTO. Led day-to-day operations of Help Desk, application delivery and development, network administration and data center management operations. Provide IT leadership, project management, relationship partnering, budget planning strategic and tactical technology direction. Brand development, web site traffic growth, deployment and DevOpping, Specialize in contract placement of Information Technology Professionals.

  • 2011

    Microwave Digital Works

    Senior Backend Developer

    (2011 - 2012) | Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil

    Responsible for programming and give maintenance of several Globosat (TV Channel) web portals, including Brasil Channel (Canal Brasil), Viva Channel (Canal Viva), Globosat Commercial, Megapix, Globosat HD, Premiere International, Sócio Premiere and Multishow HD channels, from mounting Quality Assurance environment to project and communication control with end users; also performing the architecture and assembly of Production environment with redundancy in failover and backup of the InfoGlobo Geomídia project.

  • 2000

    RJNet Internet Service Provider

    Infrastrucure Architect and Network Manager

    (2000 - 2011) | Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil

    Responsible of management and maintenance of the operational services of a service provider: Apache, IIS, Sendmail, Asterisk, Nagios, backup using linux (amanda), virtualization using both vmware xen, maintenance of Linux and Windows servers and OSX fluent; Also responsible for programming the company's internal systems and maintenance and development of websites/customer systems, for creating the RJNET speedometer connection very used in the 2000's, responsible for the creative department, where several systems were built, such as condominium management products and others.

Education History

  • 2006

    Universidade Estácio de Sá

    Bachelor , Computer Science

    (2006 - 2012)

    Student with a high grade on all disciplines and a Final Paper based on a application developed to debug and help Windows Operating System to understood better what resources installed applications were using, running and consuming memory.

  • 2001

    PUC - RJ

    Bachelor , Computer Science

    (2001 - 2006)

    The PUC-Rio IT department is a program with excelent grades according international standards about academic quality.

Certifications

Idioms Fluency

  •   NativePortuguese
  •   NativeEnglish
  •   ProfessionalSpanish

Professional Skills

  • AWS Cloud Computing Architecture
    95%
  • Public Relations/Speaker
    95%
  • Developer Relationship
    93%
  • Curriculum Development
    92%
  • DevOps Engineer
    91%
  • Operating Systems
    90%
  • Mentoring and People Management
    89%

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