Pedro Faria da Costa

Senior Solutions Architect | Certified AWS SA Pro; CNCF CKA & CKAD | Based in Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Summary

Senior solutions architect with extensive knowledge and experience in different technologies rooted from a strong background as a consultant in Java projects. Now focusing on delivering micro services solutions in cloud platforms such as AWS and Kubernetes.

Top Skills

Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Microservices, Terraform, Go, Java, Python, Ruby.

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (2021)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator - CKA (2020)
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer - CKAD (2019)
Intermediate Certificate in Enterprise & Solution Architecture (2013)

Languages Spoken

English (Full Professional Proficiency)
Portuguese (Native or Bilingual Proficiency)
Spanish (Full Professional Proficiency)
Italian (Professional Working Proficiency)

Experience

N-Able (Dec 2019 - Present)
Senior Solutions Architect

Part of the shared services team which helps design solutions focusing on cloud native, micro services architectures using Kubernetes and AWS as a platform.
Organises and runs several architecture initiatives to help establish and improve architecture processes.
Platform architect responsible in helping to establish and drive the migration of internal projects to Kubernetes in AWS using CI/CD with Jenkins, Terraform, Docker and Skaffold.

William Hill (Mar 2012 - Dec 2019)
Solutions Architect

Started as a solutions architect for mobile gaming, responsibilities included to provide solutions to build a modern and rich mobile site and native application, which resulted in the integration of many different third party games providers and the introduction of a single wallet and single sign-in for seamless customer experience.
Moved to the mobile sportsbook team,responsibilites included to provide solutions to improve William Hill mobile sportsbook, which resulted in introducing the first William Hill iOS and Android application.
Lastly worked as a solutions architect for the sportsbook data team, being responsible for the services that provide all required data for the William Hill sportsbook site. Introduced a new microservices architecture to the data tier using new technologies like gRPC, HTTP/2, Streaming, SSE; and moving services to the Cloud, did the first Kubernetes deployment for Sportsbook on Amazon EKS.

OHMI (Jun 2011 - Mar 2012)
Senior Consultant

Main Java Developer in a project to develop a new document management system (DAS) for the OHMI, replacing the current one based on IBMʼs FileNet.
The new system was made of a rich client base developed in .Net (replacing the current VB client) and a core server system (replacing a previous FileNet based system) developed in Java with Spring and Hibernate (JPA) as major frameworks.

UNFCCC (Dec 2010 - Jun 2011)
Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect for the UNFCCC. CDM is the Clean Development Mechanism (http://cdm.unfccc.int). The CDM website had been operating for 10 years recording and managing all CDM projects, but historical data was not easy to be searched and analyzed. This project was to provide a business intelligence solution for the CDM website data implemented in Python.

Federal Express (Jun 2009 - Dec 2010)
Senior Consultant

Project to develop an automatic sorting and scanning system for a new fully automated FedEx HUB in Cologne. In Java, Drools.

Vitria Technology (Oct 2007 - Jun 2009)
Senior Consultant

Main Architect for OSS development area in STA (Servei de Telecomunicacions d’Andorra).
Responsible for several projects, including: the new STA inventory for the installation of a new fibre network to the final client, FTTH (Fibre To The Home), an application to manage all the installations projects, a new activation system and a new Portal. All projects were developed using a SOA architecture and Vitria products.

Indra (Apr 2007 - Sep 2007)
Software Architect

The project was to develop a completely new banking core, based on a SOA architecture. With Caja Madrid being the initial client and with Sun Microsystems as partner, this innovative project was being funded by the Spanish Government and the EU.
Was responsible for the architecture’s definition along with other architecture team members.
Definition and development of prototypes, as proof of concept, to help define the final architecture solution.
Responsible for the areas of: monitoring/management and business services.

Telindus (Jul 2006 - Apr 2007)
Senior Consultant

Development of several applications to manage and control internet traffic, integrated into the ISP platform at ONO.

Siemens (Feb 2004 - Jun 2006)
Consultant
Portuguese Customs Authority

Project to computerise customs declarations and documents and provide an online web interface for custom clients (exporters and importers).
As technical architect was responsible for: analysis and specification of the system architecture; Specification of the development infrastructure; Development project planning.

Novabase (Oct 2001 - Feb 2004)
Senior Consultant
TMN (Telecom)

Working in a marketing management application, was responsible for the architecture definition, development team management and implementation of several application modules.

BCP/Seguros&Pensões

Project to create a new web enterprise application to manage insurance policies and claims
Architected with a web layer, a Java services layer and a cobol back-end, using a CSC’s proprietary application: COGEN41.

Skysoft Portugal S.A. (Oct 1998 - Oct 2001)
Technical Manager
ESA - European Space Agency

Project to implement a messaging system to send/receive text messages through a satellite link. The project also included a management and monitoring web application.
Was responsible for the analysis and system architecture definition. Management of a team of three software developers. Coordination with other European companies involved in the project. Development of several application modules. One month in Italy at ESA ground station to integrate and install the system.

Skysoft

Technical Manager in a European Union funded research project (3FMS) to create an air traffic control system for a Free-Flight zone.
Analysis and UML modelling.
Technical coordination with other European companies involved in the project. Implementation of several modules.

Alcatel Portugal

Developer in a telecommunication’s phone network management application for Alcatel.

Education

Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering | Instituto Superior Tecnico | 1998