Björn
From Brazil (UTC-3)
Björn – AWS, CI/CD, Kubernetes
Björn is a Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer with 20+ years of experience across infrastructure, cloud, and large-scale Kubernetes environments. He has designed and operated production platforms across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and virtualized infrastructure, including environments scaling to 1,000 Kubernetes nodes. His strengths include production debugging, cloud networking, Linux operations, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and platform observability. Björn demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership, from architecture and implementation through deployment and production operations, with a track record of improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. He communicates clearly and adapts effectively across startup and enterprise environments.
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CTO & Founder
Multi-service FinTech and healthcare payments platform serving hundreds of paying healthcare providers.
- Owned architecture, delivery, and AWS budget for a multi-service platform serving hundreds of paying medical customers;
- Led an engineering team of 3 through the design and implementation of the central billing and payments API;
- Built a multi-account topology across dev, int, stg, and prd with release gates and live end-to-end checks for money-critical paths;
- Implemented infrastructure as code with Pulumi;
- Built a production PDF-to-structured-invoice pipeline on Google Gemini with structured outputs and hybrid classification;
- Hardened production payout and reconciliation flows with operational visibility, retry handling, and integrity checks.
Cloud Architect
AdTech data and delivery platform supporting large-scale advertising workloads across a multi-account cloud environment, with infrastructure scaling to 1,000 Kubernetes nodes at peak.
- Designed and fully implemented a multi-account AWS and Kubernetes platform for a custom pipeline orchestrator, supporting workloads at a peak scale of 1,000 Kubernetes nodes;
- Architected and delivered serverless micro-APIs using FastAPI and AWS Lambda for product teams, owning delivery from architecture through implementation;
- Built data pipelines using Spark, Argo, and dbt, with CI/CD pipelines implemented through GitLab and TeamCity;
- Reduced ongoing infrastructure costs by approximately $30K per month through S3 optimization and rightsizing of instances and Spark jobs;
- Implemented platform observability using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and SIEM.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Cryptocurrency exchange platform supporting trading and wallet operations across multiple digital assets.
- Integrated core cryptocurrency exchange platform components with Ansible, supporting automated configuration and deployment;
- Owned end-to-end release management for the platform;
- Designed and built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, using Ant, Maven, and Phing;
- Automated wallet provisioning for Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), and Ethereum (ETH).
Education
Applied Physics
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