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Ricardo Freitas

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Director of Platform Engineering at Feedzai
📍 Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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.

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Current Role
Director of Platform Engineering
Location
Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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Priorities

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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.
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Career

Work history

9-2024
Director of Platform Engineering
Feedzai
2-2022 - 4-2022
Interim Cloud Director
Feedzai
11-2021 - 11-2024
Sr. Cloud Engineering Manager
Feedzai
3-2021 - 11-2021
Senior Manager, SRE
Defined.ai
6-2019 - 3-2021
Engineering Manager, SRE
Defined.ai
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Education
2004 - 2009
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Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra
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