Pedro Pessoa

Pedro Pessoa is currently an SRE at StackPath. Prior to this, they were an Operations Support Engineer at WebThriftStore from January 2014 to December 2016. There, they helped bring to life and manage all IT infrastructure required to provide a scalable, reliable online business. The service was implemented using a stack of Node.js, PHP, nginx, Apache, MySQL, and Ubuntu Server running on AWS with all infrastructure deployed and orchestrated with Puppet.

From December 2011 to May 2018, Pedro was an Operations Engineer at Server Density. There, they managed Server Density's infrastructure of 100+ Linux servers running the SaaS monitoring service. The service was implemented using a stack of PHP, Python, nginx, Apache, MongoDB, Ubuntu Server, OpenTSDB, and Google Cloud Bigtable running on Google Cloud, Softlayer, AWS, Rackspace and others with all infrastructure deployed with Terraform and orchestrated with Puppet. As Operations Engineer, Pedro was responsible for ensuring uptime and performance; improving processes, efficiency, and cost; automating as much as possible; supporting engineering features, troubleshooting customer issues, and making sure everything was ready for launches; and managing the budget.

They are on a team with Ajinkya Wadekar - Sys Eng, Phil Chung - Manager, and Kenji Fukasawa - Technical Lead SRE. Pedro Pessoa reports to Mike Bokros, Director, Automation and Platform SRE.