Filipe Felisbino
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Filipe Felisbino

Filipe Felisbino

Systems Engineering | Infrastructure | Kubernetes | AI Agents Winter Garden, FL felisbino.dev filipenf filipenf

Profile

Technical leader with 15+ years building and scaling systems for high-traffic services. Deployed and operated Kubernetes clusters using autoscaling (Karpenter), Istio and a mix of spot and on-demand instances. Led SRE, Datastore and Monitoring teams at Udemy with focus on simplifying the tech footprint to clean technical debt and decrease cybersecurity risks and operational burden on the team. Currently working on scaling AI-powered research agents for third-party risk management.

Core Strengths

  • Infrastructure automation, Terraform, Ansible
  • Programming in multiple languages including Python, Go, Rust, Java, C++
  • Kubernetes operations, migrations, monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Cloud migration, disaster recovery, monitoring, and cost management
  • Linux, networking, TCP/IP

Experience

Platform Engineer Magnitude AI ~ Dec 2025 - Present

  • Infrastructure automation and cost management
  • Compliance (SOC 2) and security posture
  • AI Agents for third-party risk assessment and research

Architect Udemy ~ Jun 2019 - Dec 2025

  • Technical lead for the SRE, Datastore and Monitoring teams
  • Owned Kubernetes/EKS cluster foundations, Istio service mesh, application scaling to support ~70 million students worldwide
  • Led the migration of core services to Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD + GitHub Actions), unifying the compute platform and boosting developer velocity
  • Designed and implemented autoscaling + spot instances for the monolith, saving millions in AWS costs annually
  • Drove infrastructure unification and cost management, reducing tech stack footprint by ~60% while simplifying operations

Site Reliability Engineer Udemy ~ Jun 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Built a disaster recovery site on AWS
  • Implemented a load testing framework using Locust to understand how our systems degrade under high traffic
  • Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform/Ansible for reproducible, self-serve environments

Systems Engineer Versata ~ Nov 2015 - Jun 2017

  • Migrated 12 physical data centers to AWS, adopting Docker/Kubernetes and modernizing the infrastructure in the process
  • Implemented monitoring, alerting, and VPC networking to minimize downtime during the transition to the AWS cloud
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Ansible

Systems Engineer ipTrust Tecnologia ~ Mar 2015 - Nov 2015

  • Application and Network Performance Monitoring (APM/NPM) with Riverbed
  • Helped customers understand bottlenecks and identify slow paths in production, including one of the largest companies in Brazil: Correios

Cloud Engineer Chaordic Systems ~ Feb 2014 - Mar 2015

  • Reduced DynamoDB and SQS costs by ~60%
  • Migrated from EC2 Classic to VPC, improving security, automation and resource allocation
  • Identified a bug on AWS VPC billing that led to $10K/month in undue costs

C and C++ Linux Systems Engineer Digitro Tecnologia Ltda ~ Feb 2013 - Feb 2014

  • C and C++ software for lawful internet interception systems using libpcap and Linux kernel primitives for high-volume packet processing

Software Developer Verint Systems ~ Jul 2012 - Feb 2013

  • C++ software development for lawful internet interception systems used by law enforcement agencies and telecom operators in Brazil
  • Integration layer using ASN.1, CORBA and SOAP protocols backed by Oracle databases

Startup Founder IM Control Systems ~ Jun 2005 - Jul 2012

  • Founded the company at 22 years old, building a network proxy for instant messaging systems like MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and others
  • The product used NAT or explicit proxying to enforce corporate security policies on public instant messaging networks
  • Built with C++ (backend) and Java (configuration interface) on Linux with iptables backed by a SQLite database

Software Developer Plaszom Ind. Plasticos Ltda ~ Jan 2002 - Jun 2005

  • Migrated old systems from SuperMUMPS to a more modern stack based on Cache + Delphi and Oracle
  • Internal portal built in PHP
  • Factory automation (scales, machine scheduling, etc.) and ERP

Certifications

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Linux Foundation, Dec 2024
  • PRINCE2 Foundation Certified, APMG-International, Nov 2013
  • Sun Certified Web Components Developer, Sun Microsystems, Aug 2009
  • Sun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Microsystems, Feb 2009
  • LPI Certified, Linux Professional Institute, Apr 2004

Talks and Conferences

  • AI Engineer Miami, Apr 2026 (attendee)
  • Talk: “Patching Your Way to Compliance with a Small Team and a Pile of Technical Debt” - SRECon San Francisco, Mar 2024
  • Panelist: “From Risks to Ramped-Up Security”, Teleport Connect Oct 2023
  • SRECon Europe - Dublin, Sep 2017 (attendee)
  • Talk: Cloud Scalability on AWS - Florianopolis, Aug 2016