Apr 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Remote

• I led a team of developer advocates specializing in multi-format video content creation, including technical long-form tutorials for YouTube, short-form content for Instagram Reels, and interactive livestreams for Twitch.

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Remote

• I served as a subject-matter expert across multiple technologies, including Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, OpenSearch, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, and Amazon ElastiCache. My role was to establish thought leadership for AWS through an authentic voice, a hands-on problem-solving approach, and deep technical credibility.

May 2021 – Nov 2021 · 6 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Remote

• I led the global community and developer advocacy strategy at Elastic, with a focus on observability. With observability being one of the key industries Elastic wanted to lead, it required someone to serve as an evangelist for observability, both within Elastic and with the external community.
• 📢 Accomplishments:
• ◼️ Closed strategic sponsorship contracts with observability-based conferences.
• ◼️ Brought visibility for Elastic in open-source projects like OpenTelemetry & Prometheus.
• ◼️ Worked with DA managers worldwide to lead observability efforts across all regions.

Sep 2020 – May 2021 · 8 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Remote

• As a Principal Developer Advocate at Elastic, I focused on fostering community engagement in North America, promoting the adoption of ELKB (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) for data-intensive applications, as well as expanding the market into segments where Elastic aimed to be a leader, such as observability and security.
• 📢 Accomplishments:
• ◼️ Developed a strategy that increased YouTube subscribers from 1K to +10k in one year.
• ◼️ Established the triangle technique to implement force multipliers for technical content.
• ◼️ Mentored other developer advocates from AMER about developer relations execution.

Oct 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · Remote

• In my role at Confluent, my primary responsibility was to educate developers on data streaming systems using Apache Kafka. I wrote blogs, spoke at conferences, and hosted meetups to build communities and share knowledge. But more importantly, I helped Confluent to become a leader in the event streaming space, a market that required paving the way for adoption, growth, and community leadership.
• 📢 Accomplishments:
• ◼️ Creator of the Pac-Man demo: the most successful demo about event data streaming.
• ◼️ Led the adoption of Confluent Cloud in the community during the first years of the product.
• ◼️ Delivered workshops about how to create custom connectors for Apache Kafka worldwide.

May 2014 – Oct 2018 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• In 2014, Oracle relocated me to the United States to join the A-Team, a specialized group within the product development organization. My role involved working closely with customers in the field, influencing the product roadmap, and completing highly complex projects successfully. This experience allowed me to develop strong skills in project management, customer engagement, and product development.

Oct 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• In my role as Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle in São Paulo, Brazil, I served as a subject-matter expert in SOA, EDA, and Big Data. I successfully implemented a groundbreaking project for one of Brazil's largest banks, resulting in the replacement of their mainframe implementation with a more efficient system that leveraged data streaming and caching technologies, reducing costs and improving TPS performance. This achievement earned me the prestigious Oracle World's Best Sales Consultant Award in 2013.

Mar 2009 – Oct 2012 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• In my role as a Senior Sales Consultant at Oracle, I worked closely with development teams to design, implement, and deploy projects for customers in Brazil. I also served as a regional technical evangelist for Oracle Coherence, increasing product awareness in the LATAM region about in-memory data grids architectures.

Jan 2008 – Mar 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos · São Paulo, Brazil · Remote

• In my role as a Senior Solutions Architect at Red Hat, I helped to drive the success of the SOA Platform product by specializing in JBoss ESB. I also worked with open-source communities to promote JBoss via speaking engagements at conferences and meetups, as well as contributing code to the 2PC/XA implementation of JBossMQ.

Oct 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

• I led a team at Squadra Digital to implement middleware projects, specializing in technologies like messaging and application servers. By closing multi-year contracts and achieving CMMI level 5, we propelled the company to new heights.

Oct 2004 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs 3 mos · On-site

• During my time at Squadra Digital in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, I had the opportunity to be a Java Instructor at the training center. I was responsible for teaching the Java formation course, which included everything from the fundamentals of programming with Java to preparing students for Sun Microsystems certifications. It was a rewarding experience to help aspiring developers build a strong foundation in Java programming.

Oct 2004 – Oct 2006 · 2 yrs · On-site

• I worked as a Software Engineer at Squadra Digital in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where I specialized in implementing projects using Java. One of my key achievements was building a high-performance engine that could handle 100K transactions/second during peak times, utilizing a single-node setup with four Intel cores and 32GB of RAM. This engine became the cornerstone for many future projects requiring dynamic rule management.

Aug 2001 – Oct 2004 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• I joined Argos in 2001 to work primarily as a certified instructor for Delphi. Eventually, I expanded my scope to include official training for JBuilder and VisiBroker (CORBA middleware). As an instructor at Argos, I delivered official training on behalf of Borland Software across the country, training over 2,000 people.