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I am a highly experienced IT professional with over 25 years of continuous engagement in the ever-evolving technology landscape. My career spans from the foundational days of MS-DOS to architecting advanced cloud-native systems across GCP, Kubernetes, and AI-integrated platforms. I've led the development of production-grade DevOps automation frameworks, including a fully autonomous Pulumi stack generator and an enterprise-ready AI assistant (MCP) powered by GKE, Vertex AI, and Slack integration. My expertise bridges infrastructure as-code, security, observability, and natural language automation across GitLab, Confluence, and Jira. With an unwavering commitment to innovation, hands-on leadership, and proven delivery at scale, I bring deep technical insight and real-world impact to any organization. My proven leadership in replacing legacy stacks with declarative infrastructure, enforcing audit and security standards, and enabling non-technical stakeholders via AI-powered UIs reflects my dedication to transformative IT solutions.…I am a highly experienced IT professional with over 25 years of continuous engagement in the ever-evolving technology landscape. My career spans from the foundational days of MS-DOS to architecting advanced cloud-native systems across GCP, Kubernetes, and AI-integrated platforms. I've led the development of production-grade DevOps automation frameworks, including a fully autonomous Pulumi stack generator and an enterprise-ready AI assistant (MCP) powered by GKE, Vertex AI, and Slack integration. My expertise bridges infrastructure as-code, security, observability, and natural language automation across GitLab, Confluence, and Jira. With an unwavering commitment to innovation, hands-on leadership, and proven delivery at scale, I bring deep technical insight and real-world impact to any organization. My proven leadership in replacing legacy stacks with declarative infrastructure, enforcing audit and security standards, and enabling non-technical stakeholders via AI-powered UIs reflects my dedication to transformative IT solutions.

Francisco Azevedo

DevOps Developer, Cloud Developer, AI Engineer

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I am a highly experienced IT professional with over 25 years of continuous engagement in the ever-evolving technology landscape. My career spans from the foundational days of MS-DOS to architecting advanced cloud-native systems across GCP, Kubernetes, and AI-integrated platforms. I've led the development of production-grade DevOps automation frameworks, including a fully autonomous Pulumi stack generator and an enterprise-ready AI assistant (MCP) powered by GKE, Vertex AI, and Slack integration. My expertise bridges infrastructure as-code, security, observability, and natural language automation across GitLab, Confluence, and Jira. With an unwavering commitment to innovation, hands-on leadership, and proven delivery at scale, I bring deep technical insight and real-world impact to any organization. My proven leadership in replacing legacy stacks with declarative infrastructure, enforcing audit and security standards, and enabling non-technical stakeholders via AI-powered UIs reflects my dedication to transformative IT solutions.…I am a highly experienced IT professional with over 25 years of continuous engagement in the ever-evolving technology landscape. My career spans from the foundational days of MS-DOS to architecting advanced cloud-native systems across GCP, Kubernetes, and AI-integrated platforms. I've led the development of production-grade DevOps automation frameworks, including a fully autonomous Pulumi stack generator and an enterprise-ready AI assistant (MCP) powered by GKE, Vertex AI, and Slack integration. My expertise bridges infrastructure as-code, security, observability, and natural language automation across GitLab, Confluence, and Jira. With an unwavering commitment to innovation, hands-on leadership, and proven delivery at scale, I bring deep technical insight and real-world impact to any organization. My proven leadership in replacing legacy stacks with declarative infrastructure, enforcing audit and security standards, and enabling non-technical stakeholders via AI-powered UIs reflects my dedication to transformative IT solutions.

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I am a highly experienced IT professional with over 25 years of continuous engagement in the ever-evolving technology landscape. My career spans from the foundational days of MS-DOS to architecting advanced cloud-native systems across GCP, Kubernetes, and AI-integrated platforms. I’ve led the development of production-grade DevOps automation frameworks, including a fully autonomous Pulumi stack generator and an enterprise-ready AI assistant (MCP) powered by GKE, Vertex AI, and Slack integration. My expertise bridges infrastructure as-code, security, observability, and natural language automation across GitLab, Confluence, and Jira.

With an unwavering commitment to innovation, hands-on leadership, and proven delivery at scale, I bring deep technical insight and real-world impact to any organization. My proven leadership in replacing legacy stacks with declarative infrastructure, enforcing audit and security standards, and enabling non-technical stakeholders via AI-powered UIs reflects my dedication to transformative IT solutions.

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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at CHOREOGRAPH

November 1, 2021 - Present

Seamlessly orchestrated the migration of Jenkins jobs to a new instance, ensuring uninterrupted CI/CD. Implemented industry best practices for Jenkins job management, enhancing pipeline efficiency. Spearheaded deployment of a secure in-house GitLab with customized IAM controls and GitOps enforcement. Led transformation of infrastructure provisioning from Terraform to Pulumi with improved automation. Developed a Pulumi Stack Generator for live GCP infrastructure scanning and YAML/state file generation. Built the MCP AI System: a modular FastAPI assistant integrated with GPU-backed GKE, Vertex AI, and Slack for real-time DevOps and cloud intelligence. Integrated RAG pipelines with Vertex AI for querying Confluence and Jira documentation. Created a secure frontend dashboard with TailwindCSS and streaming handlers to enable no-CLI Pulumi previews and AI insights. Positioned MCP as a commercial RAG product.

DevOps Engineer at WOWCHER

November 1, 2021 - August 6, 2025

Conducted comprehensive security assessments ensuring GDPR compliance. Built robust CI/CD pipelines with Oracle DB replication and password rotation policies. Automated environment shutdowns and DB replacements pipelines. Enabled AWS GuardDuty and Macie for security monitoring. Migrated artifact repository from Archiva to Artifactory. Rebuilt environments, AMIs, and Terraform configurations. Migrated build servers from TeamCity to Jenkins. Integrated SonarQube for code quality and CVE tracking. Audited and remediated dependency vulnerabilities.

DevOps Engineer and System Administrator at LUMEON

November 1, 2018 - August 6, 2025

Delivered infrastructure solutions for clients including Bupa, Optegra, and Nuffield Health. Managed builds, patching, and deployments across UAT, Test, and Production environments. Configured Jenkins for deploy automation. Migrated infrastructure from Ubuntu to CentOS 7. Integrated Nagios, HAProxy, DNS, and Cryptabs for monitoring and networking. Implemented HL7 for NHS N3 compliance and upgraded legacy systems with table encryption. Enforced UK Healthcare and PCI compliance standards.

Engineer and Systems Administrator at INTERCITY

January 31, 2016 - August 6, 2025

Scripted Bash/PHP updates for servers and systems. Set up RedHat HA, Puppet, Zabbix, Jenkins, and Ejabberd for infrastructure management. Maintained infrastructure across UK, USA, and Hong Kong. Developed asset, ticket, and project management systems. Provided on-call support for a large telephony system with over 5000 live phones.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at X-ITM

June 30, 2014 - August 6, 2025

Managed enterprise IT security, infrastructure, and product development. Delivered global multi-region data centers. Automated Linux/Windows infrastructure across 2000 Dell servers. Led Citrix Xen virtualization and secure platform rollouts. Created a global encrypted messaging system. Architected AI and hardware strategy.

Tech Lead, Engineer, Operations Roles at UK-Repair / Mobile Repair Centre / PcGlobal

January 1, 2010 - August 6, 2025