André Pires

André Pires

Problem solver.
DevOps Engineer at Engine AI — Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, ArgoCD, AWS, Azure.

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About

I'm a DevOps Engineer based in Lisbon, Portugal. I build and maintain the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that let development teams ship reliably.

My day-to-day mix is Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and ArgoCD across AWS and Azure — with a healthy dose of monitoring (Prometheus) and a focus on tightening security around the data and services we run.

Comfortable pairing with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot) for IaC changes, runbook automation and PR review workflows.

Experience

Nov 2023 — Present
DevOps Engineer
Engine AI · Lisbon
Aug 2021 — Nov 2023
DevOps Engineer
D-Orbit · Lisbon

Owned the infrastructure behind Aurora, a cloud-based Mission Control platform. Day-to-day with kubectl, Helm, ArgoCD and Terraform; integrated new tooling for monitoring and data security.

Aug 2020 — Aug 2021
Scrum Master
D-Orbit · Lisbon

Stepped into Scrum Master duties for a year — kept the team aligned on priorities and unblocked interface conflicts between peers.

Oct 2018 — Jul 2020
DevOps Engineer
D-Orbit · Lisbon

Built and maintained the cloud infrastructure for a new product: Kubernetes on AWS via Kops, Helm-packaged services, and Bitbucket Pipelines for multi-environment testing and deployment.

Aug 2018 — Oct 2018
Software Developer
Nokia · Lisbon

Evaluated new technologies for the Nokia Performance Manager — Kubernetes, Docker and Apache NiFi.

Sep 2016 — Jun 2018
Student Researcher
Instituto de Telecomunicações · Lisbon

MSc dissertation: an OSPF extension introducing inter-area communication channels to compute optimal global paths while staying compatible with existing OSPF deployments.

Education

2015 — 2018
MSc, Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico · Lisbon

Specialisation in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications.

2011 — 2015
BSc, Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico · Lisbon

Projects

Sesta

SaaS · Live

A holiday and absence management platform for Portuguese companies — requests, approvals and the annual holiday map in one place. Employees pick dates on a calendar and submit; managers approve with balances and legal limits in view.

Handles the fiddly parts of Portuguese labour law automatically — accrual, carryover and leave types — with shareable team calendars and remote-work tracking. AI backs the whole flow: it helps managers review and decide requests, and a built-in chat answers leave questions, citing the relevant law. EU-hosted data, €1 per employee per month.

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OSPF-ABR / Arbitrary Topologies

MSc thesis · 2017–2018 · Python

An extension of the OSPF routing protocol that lifts the classic two-level area hierarchy and supports arbitrary topologies between Area Border Routers. It introduces new inter-area communication channels so the protocol can compute optimal end-to-end paths across any area layout, while staying backwards-compatible with stock OSPF deployments.

Built and validated as part of my MSc dissertation at Instituto Superior Técnico, supported by Instituto de Telecomunicações.

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