🌎 Available for US-remote roles (Backend / Platform / DevOps)
Backend engineer with solid experience building production systems in Java/Spring and Python, backed by strong database and API design skills. Comfortable across the full stack — from application code to Kubernetes clusters — with a growing focus on Cloud Native infrastructure, GitOps, and Site Reliability Engineering.
🎯 Currently pursuing: CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) 📚 Learning path: KCNA → CKAD → CKA → CKS + AWS + RHCSA 🇺🇸 Goal: US remote opportunities
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified Foundations Associate — Oracle
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associate — Oracle
- Uncomplicating Docker — LINUXtips
- Postgraduate in Cybersecurity & Ethical Hacking — FIAP (in progress)
Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD
- ⚙️ Designing and shipping backend services and APIs with Java/Spring and Python
- 🚀 Building PICKStack — a Cloud Native platform with Kubernetes, GitOps, observability and SLO management
- ☸️ Deep diving into Kubernetes operations toward CKA certification
- 🌍 Improving English fluency and studying German (B1 target)
- 🇧🇷 Portuguese — Native
- 🇺🇸 English — Intermediate (improving toward fluency)
- 🇩🇪 German — Learning (B1 target by 2026)
- 🌐 cesarsantos.dev
- 📍 Open to US remote (USD) and EU relocation — Germany 2026




