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I’m a tech lead and platform engineer with 10+ years in cloud-native infrastructure and SRE. I design scalable, secure platforms on AWS, drive FinOps practices, and build observable, cost-efficient CI/CD and IaC ecosystems. I love mentoring DevOps teams, collaborating with security to implement guardrails, and shaping reliable systems that scale with AI and modern cloud native patterns. Currently I lead Platform Engineering efforts, contribute to the AWS Joinville User Group, and focus on building Gen AI Ops infrastructures that optimize token usage and API latency while keeping cloud spend in check.…I’m a tech lead and platform engineer with 10+ years in cloud-native infrastructure and SRE. I design scalable, secure platforms on AWS, drive FinOps practices, and build observable, cost-efficient CI/CD and IaC ecosystems. I love mentoring DevOps teams, collaborating with security to implement guardrails, and shaping reliable systems that scale with AI and modern cloud native patterns. Currently I lead Platform Engineering efforts, contribute to the AWS Joinville User Group, and focus on building Gen AI Ops infrastructures that optimize token usage and API latency while keeping cloud spend in check.

Luis F. Pontes

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I’m a tech lead and platform engineer with 10+ years in cloud-native infrastructure and SRE. I design scalable, secure platforms on AWS, drive FinOps practices, and build observable, cost-efficient CI/CD and IaC ecosystems. I love mentoring DevOps teams, collaborating with security to implement guardrails, and shaping reliable systems that scale with AI and modern cloud native patterns. Currently I lead Platform Engineering efforts, contribute to the AWS Joinville User Group, and focus on building Gen AI Ops infrastructures that optimize token usage and API latency while keeping cloud spend in check.…I’m a tech lead and platform engineer with 10+ years in cloud-native infrastructure and SRE. I design scalable, secure platforms on AWS, drive FinOps practices, and build observable, cost-efficient CI/CD and IaC ecosystems. I love mentoring DevOps teams, collaborating with security to implement guardrails, and shaping reliable systems that scale with AI and modern cloud native patterns. Currently I lead Platform Engineering efforts, contribute to the AWS Joinville User Group, and focus on building Gen AI Ops infrastructures that optimize token usage and API latency while keeping cloud spend in check.

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I’m a tech lead and platform engineer with 10+ years in cloud-native infrastructure and SRE. I design scalable, secure platforms on AWS, drive FinOps practices, and build observable, cost-efficient CI/CD and IaC ecosystems. I love mentoring DevOps teams, collaborating with security to implement guardrails, and shaping reliable systems that scale with AI and modern cloud native patterns.

Currently I lead Platform Engineering efforts, contribute to the AWS Joinville User Group, and focus on building Gen AI Ops infrastructures that optimize token usage and API latency while keeping cloud spend in check.

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Tech Lead Manager (Platform Engineering) at Tenchi Security

May 1, 2025 - Present

Designed and deployed a serverless FinOps engine using Python/Lambda and Cost Explorer API, enabling automated anomaly detection and reducing AWS monthly burn by 20% via rightsizing and tagging policies. Spearheaded end-to-end creation of a scalable Data Lake using AWS RDS, DMS, and Kinesis Firehose, unlocking advanced analytics and reducing operational maintenance. Architected Gen AI Ops infrastructure for Gen AI features, implementing CloudWatch metrics to monitor token consumption and API latency, ensuring cost-effective scaling of LLM integrations. Led a DevOps team and collaborated with Security to implement cloud guardrails through AWS Organizations and SCPs.

DevOps Engineer at Tenchi Security

January 1, 2024 - May 1, 2025

Directed migration toward serverless FinOps architecture and enhanced data pipelines (Data Lake, Gen AI features) with emphasis on governance and security; implemented cloud guardrails via AWS Organizations and SCPs; led Gen AI feature integrations with cost-aware scaling.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Platform Builders

January 1, 2023 - January 1, 2024

Enterprise Observability: Directed the migration from New Relic to DataDog for a microservices architecture supporting a national pharmacy retail chain; improved system health visibility through business-oriented dashboards. SRE Culture: Established a 90% adoption rate of SLIs/SLOs across multiple squads, improving incident response efficiency and promoting a culture of reliability. Kubernetes Automation: Developed a custom Python CLI to map and audit resources across multiple EKS clusters, identifying unused resources and anomalies to improve cloud governance.

DevOps Engineer at One7

February 1, 2020 - January 1, 2022

Platform Engineering: Reduced developer onboarding from 1 day to 1 hour by creating a standardized local development environment using Docker, Makefiles, and local stack. Modernization: Orchestrated the migration of legacy PHP/Laravel APIs from EC2 to AWS ECS (Fargate), improving scalability and security segmentation.