About Me

I graduated in Communication Networks Engineering from the University of Brasília, Brazil. During the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016 I attended Colorado State University, USA and worked as a TA for the CS430 - Database Systems class during the Summer 2016.
My first job with Network Operations was in 2012, when I was admitted to University of Brasilia, although my experiences fiddling with computers started around 2005.
When I was 11, I learned Delphi 7 and began to play with programming. Many years passed, I learned a few more programming languages and left aside programming to focus on Systems Administration skills.

Contact Details

Luiz Amaral
email@luiz.eng.br

Education

Colorado State University, USA

Electrical Engineering, Visiting International Program • August 2015 - May 2016

University of Brasilia, Brazil

B.Sc. in Communication Networks Engineering • March 2012 - July 2018

Work

Grupo Brasal

Systems Administrator • July 2017 - January 2018

  • Deployment of a remote virtualized infrastructure based on VMware ESXi;
  • Zabbix and Elastic Stack based monitoring, with data presented on Grafana dashboards;
  • Creation and management of Virtual Machines needed for applications and databases in two separate environments, staging and production;
  • Deployment of a version control platform with GitLab, leading to automated code deployment and faster and easier code management.

Decision-making Technologies Laboratory - Latitude at University of Brasilia

Systems Administrator • November 2016 - Now | April 2012 - July 2015

  • Virtualization systems deployment and management, leading to a High Availability environment using Hyper-V and System Center;
  • Network assets installation, configuration and management;
  • Active Directory deployment and management, with GPO for access time control, profile synchronization, restricted logon;
  • Zabbix for system monitoring together with Grafana for dashboards, reducing the incident response time and increasing the availability of services;
  • EMC2 based storage solution with a FC SAN, providing a transparent live-migration of Virtual Machines;
  • Puppet and Foreman based Orchestration solution, providing unified management of packages and configuration files for the heterogeneous environment.

UbiCity - Smart Cities

Python Developer and Systems Administrator• November 2016 - March 2017

  • Python backend developer, using TornadoWeb framework to provide a Web service for a real estate listing website;
  • Installation of a Nginx proxy for load balancing;
  • VMWare Virtual Machines management;
  • Implementation of a Zabbix based solution for monitoring, including custom templates and Python scripts for Nginx log parsing.

Dept. of Computer Science - Colorado State University

Teaching Assistant • May 2016 - August 2016

  • Homework answer keys preparation;
  • Grading of homework assignments;
  • Helping the students through the online learning platform and in-person during office hours.

Qualification

  • Engineering in New Media & Broadcasting Technologies

    Globo Comunicações S.A. • 60 hours • March - June 2015

  • Systems and Networks Security

    ESR - Brazilian National Research Network • 40 hours • February 2014

  • IP Routing Protocols

    ESR - Brazilian National Research Network • 24 hours • May 2013

  • TCP/IP Networks Architecture and Protocols

    ESR - Brazilian National Research Network • 40 hours • March 2013

Skills

Those are the the main skills that I have developed during these years, although I am always open to learning new things.

  • Linux
  • Infrastructure and Services Monitoring
  • Virtualization
  • Active Directory
  • Configuration Management
  • Storage Area Networks