Guto Carvalho
Dourados/MS, Brazil | guto@carvalho.life
About me
I have been here a long time. I started to work with computers back in the '90s. My first OS was MS-DOS 6.0, and my first window manager was Windows 3.1. I used to connect to the internet using those noisy 14.400mbps modems from US Robotics, and IRC was the best way to chat with our friends :)
I have a sysadmin soul plus network and Linux skills combined with agile culture, I'm also a DevOps Enthusiast, GitOps Practitioner, and Cloud-Native believer.
I've done so many things during my digital journey. I've worked as a Sysadmin, Network engineer, Linux engineer, Advisor for the Federal Government, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Infrastructure developer (Infra as code), and GitOps engineer. Now I'm working as a Cloud Native Engineer, currently living in Dourados, MS, Brazil.
My interests range from infrastructure as code (IaC), DevOps, GitOps, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, ChatOps, Continuous Delivery, and Agile principles.
My goals
I want to help companies extract more from their infrastructure, innovate, and seek creative and intelligent solutions that add value to their teams, projects, products, and customers.
Exciting things about my work
In 2011, I presented an automation case using IaC inside a Brazilian Executive Federal Government agency called EBC, probably the first one.
I was one of the first professionals to write and talk about DevOps and automation (IaC) in Brazil back in 2011-2012.
I was one of the disseminators of the DevOps Culture inside the Brazilian Federal Government.
In 2012-2013, I dived into the DevOps Principles and Community, and back then, I started to follow Patrick Debois and John Willis' adventures, trying to use their experience in Brazil.
I was part of the team that built the first private cloud of Itaú, one of the largest banks in Brazil.
In two of my recent projects, I was able to help the Ministry of Health and Superior Justice Tribunal enter the Cloud Native era. I designed the architecture and deployed several k8s clusters for their APPs and systems (dev, stg, test, pre-prod, prod), now they are moving from legacy to Cloud Native.
Exciting things about my IT adventures
I held two DevOpsDays in Brasilia city, Brazil's Capital.
I was invited to open two DevOpsDays in Brazil, one in Porto Alegre, and another in Goiania, and I was honored and very proud to be in both places. This one of those things that is very significant in our lives, and I'll remember those days forever.
I've trained more than 500 people on IaC in the last 10 years.
I've been blogging for almost 15 years about IT and general stuff.
I've given more than 150 talks in the last 10 years.
I'm a regular speaker in several Brazil IT Conferences.
Exciting things about my personal life
I grew up in the mid-west of Brazil in a state called 'Mato Grosso do Sul' near the Bolivia and Paraguay borders. In that state, I lived in Pantanal Sul (South Swamplands). In that time, I had the opportunity to experience nature and wildlife, ride horses and swim in rivers with fish, snakes, alligators, birds, reptiles, and various mammals — a magical and amazing time of my life.
In my young adult life, I decided to move to Brasília in 2008 to find new challenges in IT and get closer to the Federal Government's mission-critical systems, and I lived there until May 2025 — almost 17 years experiencing that city and region — before returning to Dourados/MS, where my parents and sister live.
Now, in my forties, I have two kids, a dog and a cat, and we live in Dourados, in the countryside of Mato Grosso do Sul, close to Paraguay.
Besides the IT life and digital culture, I love to do mountain bike and karate-do!
See more information about me here. (portuguese only)
Recent experience
Latitude.sh
Platform Engineer - MetalMar 2026 — Present;
Working as a platform engineer, operating company services and building automation to delivery baremetal and bmc services.
Tecnologias
- Git
- Docker/Dockerfile
- Terraform
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Tinkerbell
- Harvester
- Kubevirt
- Kubernetes
- RKE
- Rancher
- CloudFlare
- IA/Claude/Copilot/Greptile
- Bash/Zsh
- Python/Ruby
- YAML
- Okta
- PostHog
- Netbox
- Axiom
- HookOS
- PXE
- BMC
GetInsight
Platform EngineerMar 2024 — Mar 2026;
Working as a platform engineer, operating company services and client infrastructures.
Tecnologias
- Git
- Docker
- Terraform
- Ansible
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Kubernetes
- Keda
- CloudFlare
- CertManager
- Ingress
- Nginx
- Helm
- Velero
- AWS (S3/EC2/RDS/Route53/EKS/ECR/IAM)
- Bash/Shell
- Python/Ruby para automação.
DNSFilter.com
Platform EngineerMar, 2022 — Fev 2024;
Working as a Platform Engineer, maintaning and operating the platform of the DNSFilter SaaS. Handling 35 bilions of transactions day. We're also moving several baremetal services to EKS and EC2.
Technologies
- Git
- Docker
- Terraform
- Ansible
- GitHub
- Slab
- Confluence
- Jira
- Datadog
- ZenDesk
- CircleCI
- Kafka
- Redis
- ClickHouse
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Rundeck
- Wazuh
- NewRelic
- Kubernetes
- Keda
- CloudFlare
- CertManager
- Ingress
- Nginx
- Helm
- Velero
- AWS (S3/EC2/RDS/Route53/EKS/ECR/IAM)
- Bash/Shell
- Python/Ruby for Ops automation
VMFARMs/Stack.io
Cloud Engineer2021 to 2022
Relevant certifications
Rancher Operator Level 1
Rancher · 3200de73ce8245348d4bf4ff5194f6d5
Pupper Certified Professional
Puppet · PCP204-0052
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance · 000688337
RedHat Certified Engineer
RedHat · 140-019-704
RedHat Certified System Administrator
RedHat · 140-019-704
RedHat Certified JBOSS Administrator
RedHat · 140-019-704
Zabbix Certified Professional
Zabbix · 23-01-15
Zabbix Certified Specialist
Zabbix · 21-01-15
Trainings I enjoyed
Docker image best practices
JAC Experts
How to create docker image thinking in lightness and performance.
GitLab CI Pipelines best practices
JAC Experts
How to deploy APPs in different environments with the same code.
Rancher & RKE best practices
JAC Experts
Best practices to install, maintain and operate RKE clusters with Rancher.
Velero best practices
JAC Experts
How to use velero to have a robust backup and DR plan for your cluster.
Kanban Training
K21
Kaban recognized training from an official partner of LKU.
Scrum Master Training
K21
Scrum Master recognized training from an official partner of Scrum Alliance.
Recommendations
Matheus Brescia
Cloud Engineer at stack.io
One excellent engineer, we worked side-by-side in a bunch of solutions. Have a huge understand of the whole picture of IT, a Linux lover as I am. Have a good learning curve, at least the things I taught he got quickly and learned a lot from him too. Great asset to any company.
Alexis Soto Maior
Cloud Engineer at vmfarms.com
Worked with Guto for a few months. Guto has been a while in this IT world. He is the kind of professional who has the mindset towards optimization and digital transformation. He is usually thinking outside the box to match the perfect solution to a problem, working restlessly to deliver the best.
Daniel Sobral
Software Engineer at Google.com
Guto is the most productive engineer I have ever worked with, as well as the most organized one. He approaches all tasks methodically, keeps track of every task he has to do in order to accomplish the activities he is performing, researches topics as needed, documents steps as he performs them, and, at the end, delivers the completed activity plus relevant documentation of everything he learned or did.
Kubernetes
DNSFilter
Cloud Native Engineer
Member of the team in charge of moving apps from BareMetal (Linux APPs) to AWS EKS
Tools/Work
- Infra automation with terraform
- APP Dockerization
- Creation of the K8S Manifests
- Creation of the CircleCI Pipeline for Image Build
- EKS Management
- Keda for autoscaling
- CloudFlare for DNS
- DataDog for monitoring
TheScore
Cloud Native Engineer
Member of the team in charge of moving apps from EC2 (Linux APPs) to AWS EKS
Tools/Work
- Infra automation with terraform
- APP Dockerization
- Creation of the K8S Manifests
- Creation of the CircleCI Pipeline for Image Build
- Creation of the Shipit stack for APP Delivery
- EKS Management
- Keda for autoscaling
- CloudFlare for DNS
- DataDog for monitoring
- Splunk for logs
RNP
Cloud Native Engineer
Responsible for moving from OnPremisses K8S Cluster to AWS EKS
Tools/Work
- Infra automation with terraform
- K8S Architecture Design
- APP Dockerization
- Creation of the K8S Manifests
- Creation of the Helm Charts
- GitLabCI for Image Build
- GitLabCI for APP Delivery
- Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
- Loki for Cluster Logs
- EKS Management
- Harbor for Registry
- Rancher for clusters management
Ministry of Health
Cloud Native Engineer
Responsible for moving from OpenShift to RKE Clusters
Tools/Work
- K8S Architecture Design
- Instalation of five clusters (dev, staging, pre-prod, prod, test)
- Creation of the K8S Manifests
- Creation of the Helm Charts
- GitLabCI for Image Build
- GitLabCI for APP Delivery
- Cloud Native Storage with Longhorn
- Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
- Loki for Cluster Logs
- Nexus for Registry
- Rancher for clusters management
- MatterMost for ChatOps
Superior Justice Tribunal
Cloud Native Engineer
Moving from Linux Instances on VMWARe to RKE Clusters
Tools/Work
- K8S Architecture Design
- Instalation of 3 clusters (dev, staging, prod)
- Creation of the K8S Manifests
- Creation of the Helm Charts
- GitLabCI for Image Build
- GitLabCI for APP Delivery
- Cloud Native Storage with Longhorn
- Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
- Loki for Cluster Logs
- Nexus for Registry
- Rancher for clusters management
- Zabbix for clusters management
- MatterMost for ChatOps
JAC Experts
Cloud Native Engineer
Responsible for the design and cluster implementaion
Tools/Work
- K8S Architecture Design
- Instalation of 2 clusters (staging, prod)
- Creation of the K8S Manifests
- Creation of the Helm Charts
- GitLabCI for Image Build
- GitLabCI for APP Delivery
- Cloud Native Storage with Longhorn
- Prometheus+Grafana for Cluster Metrics
- Loki for Cluster Logs
- Nexus for Registry
- Rancher for clusters management
- Zabbix for infra monitoring
- MatterMost for ChatOps
Communities I've been part of
Continuous Delivery Foundation
Ambassador for 20222022 — Present
It's a new, neutral organization that will grow and sustain an open continuous delivery ecosystem.
DevOpsDays Brasil Committee
Organizer from the Brasilia City2016 — Present
User group to discuss how to organize DevOpsDays Events in Brazil.
DevOpsDays Brasilia
Organizer2016 — Present
Community resposible for the DevOpsDays Brasilia Events.
DevOps-BR
Co-Founder2015 — Present
User group to discuss about DevOps and related tools.
GitOps Brasil
Founder2020 — Present
User group to discuss about GitOps Practices e and related tools.
Cloud Native Brasil
Founder2020 — Present
User group to discuss about Cloud Native and related tools.
Events I attended and enjoyed
DevOpsDays Fortaleza
VirtualOct/22
Semana de Capacitação NIC.BR, 5º Edição
VirtualSet/22
Chaos Carnival
VirtualJan/22
KubeCon North America
VirtualOct/21
Gitkon
VirtualSep/21
DevOps Extreme
VirtualAug/21
GitOps Summit
VirtualJun/21
DevOpsDays Rio
VirtualJun/21
GrafanaCon
VirtualJun/21
GitOpsDays
VirtualJun/21
Hashicon Europa
VirtualJun/21
DockerCon
VirtualMay/21
KubeCon Europa
VirtualMay/11
FailOverConf
VirtualApr/11
DevOpsDays Goiania
VirtualSet/20
Campus Party
VirtualJul/20
FiqueEmCasaConf
VirtualApr/20
Recent talks
How to scale to 35 bilions transactions a DAY
DevOpsDays Fortaleza, 2022
An introduction to our last project and scenario scaling a SaaS using DevOps and GitOps.
The container Revolution, from CHROOT to Cloud Native
Semana de Capacitação NIC.BR, 5º Edição
A journey through the container's history and the Cloud Native Revolution
Deploy techniques
DevOpsDays Goiania, 2021
An introduction to Canary, Green/Blue, Rollout, A/B and other techniques
Cloud-Native and the Kubernetes revolution
Campus Party, 2020
An introduction to Cloud-Native and Kubernetes, the benefits, the challenges, and the expectations.
From the commit to deploy with Kubernetes and GitLab CI
LinuxTips FicaEmCasaCOnf, 2020
A hands-on to create a pipeline to deliver an APP in any Kubernetes cluster.
10 Years of DevOps Culture
DevOpsDays Goiania, 2019
Chat about ten years of DevOps, what has changed, what may change, and where we are going
Converging from Chaos to DevOps
DevCamp, 2018
Case about a company changes during their DevOps journey.
Recent studies
Tinkerbell/BMC
To perform my role at Latitude a deep dive in Tinkerbell is something that I need to do daily.
Status: Improving HookOS to have more control inside our deployment process.
Recognition
Continuous Integration Ambassador for 2022
CD Foundation • 2022
Invited for the work with CICD in Brazil.
Best Puppet Partner of the Year
Instruct • 2017
Awarded for the work with Puppet in Brazil.
Associations
DevOpsDays Brasilia
Core Team Member • 2016 — Present
The devopsdays local core team;