Ricardo Freitas

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Director of Platform Engineering at Feedzai

Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Overview

Ricardo Freitas is the Director of Platform Engineering at Feedzai, specializing in cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and cybersecurity. He has extensive experience building and leading SRE and platform teams in the AI and retail industries. Colleagues describe him as an outstanding, knowledgeable, and relentless leader who excels at innovating and improving infrastructure.

He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS), underscoring his deep commitment to security within the cloud-native space. Ricardo is dedicated to staying current with the latest technologies to provide effective solutions.

Unique fact: Ricardo was a featured speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, where he presented on his teams journey with Spark on Kubernetes.

Personality Overview

Generally Skeptic

Objective Thinker

Quality Focused

They like to act fast and expect others to do the same.  They are very proud of what they do. More than the product, they care about the effectiveness of the product.

Topics They Care About

Cloud Native Security
As a Certified Ethical Hacker and Kubernetes Security Specialist, he actively discusses the importance of runtime security tools like Falco for protecting containerized workloads.
Kubernetes at Scale
He recently spoke at KubeCon Europe, detailing the challenges and solutions for running large-scale data processing workloads like Spark on Kubernetes.
SRE Leadership
His career progression and recommendations highlight his success in building and managing high-performing Site Reliability Engineering teams from the ground up.

Media Appearances

Ricardo Freitas - Director Of Platform Engineering at Feedzai. Featured in The Org

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Work History

9-2024
Director of Platform Engineering at Feedzai
2-2022 - 4-2022
Interim Cloud Director at Feedzai
11-2021 - 11-2024
Sr. Cloud Engineering Manager at Feedzai
3-2021 - 11-2021
Senior Manager, SRE at Defined.ai
6-2019 - 3-2021
Engineering Manager, SRE at Defined.ai

Education

2004 - 2009
Education details unavailable from Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra

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Insights For Selling To Ricardo

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Help them weigh the risks by sharing objective proof points without becoming too analytical
  • Use phrases like ‘it’s your decision’, ‘strategic impact’ etc.
  • Objectively showcase the impact that your product creates

DONT's

  • Don’t focus on process and rules, give the impression of being a ‘gets it done’ person
  • Avoid being too verbose
  • Avoid being a storyteller and don’t try to oversell

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Ricardo is

  • Conviction around the impact matters the most to them, followed by a sense of achievement and ROI.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Ricardo

  • If they decide not to use your product, they will say no clearly.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Ricardo move?

  • They can take decisions very fast if you manage to convince them.
  • Can Ricardo take some risk or not?

  • The risks don’t matter much to them.

You And Ricardo

Personality Compatibility


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