About

Rafael Rost is a Principal Software Developer at ADP with over 10 years of relevant experience in the field. He has been instrumental in helping big companies establish their footprints in cloud and containers. Rafael's expertise lies in workload design, deployment, and automation, and he has been involved in guiding various teams through the workload design process. He is one of the founders of a small startup called PEDRAMOURA, which delivers high-quality farm-to-table beef in the south of Brazil. Rafael has leveraged cloud and SaaS technologies to empower small businesses like PEDRAMOURA. At ADP, Rafael is a part of the SRE team, and his current goals include helping development teams design and deploy their workloads in the AWS cloud, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, driving containerization across different projects, and ensuring Datacloud services meet their SLAs. Rafael has previously worked as a Cloud Operations Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard, where he was responsible for creating a platform to speed up code delivery of global 24x7 applications. He has extensive experience in implementing Continuous Integration pipelines, adopting agile thought, and fostering DevOps culture. Rafael holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems Analysis from the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos. He has a diverse tech stack that includes AWS, SRE, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon Athena, DevOps, Ruby, Docker, Jenkins, Integration, NodeJS, and Java. Rafael is a highly skilled and experienced software developer who has helped numerous companies leverage cloud and container technologies to achieve their business goals.