About Miguel

I build reliable systems and grow engineering teams. I've done this from Porto to London to Brussels, 7 countries total, usually while figuring out a new language and where to get decent tea. I live in Brussels now with my wife, two small humans, and a dog named after the real hero of Middle-earth.

Background

Engineering Manager at Harvest

✓ $240K/year in cloud savings
✓ 99.95% uptime
✓ Led teams through acquisition

Education & Certifications

✓ Engineering Degree - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (1998-2003)
✓ System Thinking - MIT xPRO (March 2025)
✓ Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) - Linux Foundation (Jan 2021)
✓ AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
✓ AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate

Entrepreneurial Ventures

✓ Taste Porto - Co-founded a successful food tour company in Porto with my wife and best friend
✓ Coworking Space - Co-founded and operated a coworking space in Split, Croatia for one year

Technical Expertise

✓ Infrastructure & Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Vagrant
✓ CI/CD: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub, Buildkite
✓ Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle
✓ Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu), macOS, Unix (Solaris)

International Experience

I've lived and worked in multiple countries: Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, United Kingdom, and Croatia.

Languages

✓ Portuguese (Native)
✓ English (Native/Bilingual)
✓ French (B1)
✓ Italian (Limited)

Work History

Harvest

Engineering Manager, SRE & Forecast Teams

Jan 2023 - Sep 2025

Harvest

Site Reliability Engineer

May 2019 - Jan 2023

DevOps Porto

Co-organizer

Oct 2016 - Feb 2024

Curious Ellie

Linux, Cloud and Automation Engineer

Jan 2016 - May 2019

Miguel David d.o.o.

IT Consultant for Cloud Infrastructure

Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

Rackspace

Linux Systems Administrator L3

Jan 2014 - Jan 2015

Rackspace

Linux Systems Administrator L2

Aug 2012 - Dec 2013

Rackspace

Linux Systems Administrator

Jan 2011 - Aug 2012

European Space Agency

Systems Administrator and Data Manager

Apr 2009 - Aug 2010

Qimonda

IT Senior Engineer

Sep 2006 - Apr 2009

Infineon

IT Engineer

Mar 2003 - Sep 2006