About Me

With over 20 years of hands-on IT experience, combining strategic leadership with technical execution. Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Facens) and Systems Analyst (Estácio). At HP, as Server Automation Architect, I sustained a global data center of 160,000 servers: core, satellite, and agent, with parallel Shell patching. At VA Engenharia I led hybrid cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), FinOps, and local generative AI.

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Selected work

160,000 servers

L3 support for HP's global data center and Shell patching, capped at 50 servers in parallel per network zone.

xargs -P 50 -a servers.txt hpsa-agent-status --server
Linux · Shell · HPSA
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FinOps across three clouds

Multi-cloud cost management: orphaned Elastic IPs, storage lifecycle, and Savings Plans on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

aws ec2 describe-addresses --query "Addresses[?AssociationId==null]"
AWS · Azure · GCP · FinOps
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Local RAG on CPU

Generative AI MVP with Python and Ollama for document analysis, with the data staying in the environment.

ollama pull llama3
Python · Ollama · LangChain
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Featured Certifications

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Red Hat
SAP Business One v10 Academy
SAP
Sun Certified System Admin (SCSA)
Sun Microsystems / Oracle
Full Stack Developer (1,800h)
freeCodeCamp
AWS Technical Essentials
Amazon Web Services
Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
Microsoft
Prompt Design in Vertex AI
Google Cloud
Mini MBA in Leadership
Executive Development
ISO Technical Interpreter (9001, 14001, 45001, 50001)
IMS Compliance
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Latest Blog Publications

Articles and tutorials focused on infrastructure, development, and local AI.

10/01/2026

Multi-cloud for Banks: Separating the Core, Data, and the Audit Trail

Multi-cloud architecture for banks: a locked region, a core isolated from the lab, and an audit trail nobody can delete. SCP, CloudTrail, and Object Lock commands.

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09/29/2026

SAP Business One with SAP HANA on AWS: Architecture and Day-to-Day Operations

How to run SAP Business One on SAP HANA on AWS: instance, data and log volumes, port 30015, and backup. Power BI reads the replica, not production HANA.

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09/28/2026

ISO 27001 for IT Companies: Access, Logging, and Backup Evidence

What an ISO 27001 auditor opens at an IT company: the access list, a log sample, and proof of restore. Commands for all three, without turning the standard into a slide.

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