Sara Santos

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Senior Platform Engineer at Pillar Commerce · Platform engineering · Backstage, Kubernetes

Pillar Commerce
Lisbon, Portugal · WET (UTC+0)
9+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, Portuguese
Open to work
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Overview

Currently at Pillar Commerce, where I work on platform engineering. Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 33 a week to 1. Led the migration of 72 services to Bazel. Most at home with Kubernetes and Bazel. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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  • Roles in platform engineering
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on Kubernetes
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • SEO and link-building offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
CI/CDKubernetesBazelBackstage
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Platform Engineer roles in AI infrastructure - Lisbon or remote

Target roles
Platform Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
AI infrastructure, Climate tech
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Portugal
What I'm looking for
Scope to lead platform engineering work, with a manager who gives direct feedback.
Not interested in
Agencies and outsourcing firms

9 years in platform engineering. Strongest at CI/CD and Backstage. Open to the right conversation.

Lisbon, Portugalci/cdbackstagebazel
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Experience

  1. Senior Platform Engineer
    Jun 2022 - Present
    Pillar Commerce · 4 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Moved 68% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 28 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Platform Engineer
    Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
    Just Eat Takeaway · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 61 million requests a day.
  3. Platform Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2019
    Google · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Lisbon, Portugal
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 34 a week to 3.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 27% in two quarters.

Projects

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Computer Science
    2012 - 2016

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