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Shinichi Kudo

platform engineer · Porto, Portugal
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# README.md I build and run internal platforms so product teams can ship without filing tickets for every deploy. Over the last 6 years I cut a p95 CI pipeline from 24 to 7 minutes and moved 40+ services onto a shared Kubernetes setup. I care about golden paths and boring on-call. I keep a very tidy commit history, which is roughly the only thing in my life that is tidy.
// git log --graph --oneline
2023 – now
a9f1c07 HEAD -> main origin/main
Staff Platform Engineer @ Nimbus Freight
Porto · logistics SaaS · 2023-04 → present
  • Rebuilt the deploy path around Argo CD, taking mean time to production from 3 days to 40 minutes across 42 services.
  • Set an error-budget policy with 4 product teams; page volume dropped 61% in two quarters.
  • Retired a legacy Jenkins fleet of 18 nodes, cutting CI spend by 9,400 EUR/month.
+2,140 -6,880 · 3 golden paths
2022
4d2be18 ⚑ v3.0 promotion
Senior Platform Engineer @ Nimbus Freight
Porto · 2021-06 → 2023-04
  • Wrote the Terraform modules now used for every new environment; spin-up time fell from 2 days to 25 minutes.
  • Ran the migration off a single RDS instance to sharded Postgres with zero downtime and 0 lost rows.
+11,300 -3,110
2021
7c88a30 · merge
Merge branch 'observability' into main
consulting engagement folded back into full-time platform work
2 branches reconciled · fast-forward not possible
2019 – 2021
e51d9aa observability
Site Reliability Engineer @ Vela Metrics
remote · monitoring startup · 2019-02 → 2021-05
  • Built a Prometheus + Grafana stack ingesting 1.2M series without dropping scrapes.
  • Introduced SLOs for the top 12 endpoints; customer-reported incidents fell 34% year over year.
  • Cut alert noise from 300 to 45 daily pages by rewriting routing rules.
+8,700 -2,050
2018
b3390f2 ⚑ v2.0 promotion
Backend Engineer @ Coriander Labs
Lisbon · fintech · 2016-09 → 2019-01
  • Shipped the payments reconciliation service handling 90,000 transactions/day at 99.95% uptime.
  • Added contract tests that caught 7 breaking API changes before release.
+14,200 -4,600
2016
0a1c000 · root-commit
Junior Developer @ Coriander Labs
Lisbon · 2016-01 → 2016-09
  • Owned the internal admin dashboard used by 30 support staff; closed 120+ bug tickets in 8 months.
+3,400 -210
⎇ HEAD detached at 2026-07 · available for new branches
git log –stat · education & certs
daterefmessage
2024-03 cert Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), id CKA-4471-PT
2021-11 cert HashiCorp Terraform Associate, renewed 2024
2016 edu MSc Informatics Engineering, University of Aveiro. GPA 17/20
2014 edu BSc Computer Science, University of Aveiro
2023 talk "Boring deploys on purpose", PortoTech meetup, ~180 attendees
contributors · languages spoken
Portuguesenative
Englishfluent (C1)
Spanishworking (B1)
language stats
Go34%
Python24%
Terraform / HCL20%
Bash13%
Rust9%
topics
kubernetes argo-cd terraform prometheus postgres aws ci-cd slo on-call
6 branches · 2 tags · clean working tree last fetch: 2026-07-20