Paulo Sampaio

Engineering Manager - Cloud/SRE

paulo.vicente.neto@gmail.com +49 0176 9314 7553 linkedin.com/in/paulo-sampaio-neto Berlin, Germany (Relocating to Brazil - Available for LATAM remote)

Engineering leader with 15+ years building and scaling high-performing Cloud/SRE teams. I combine deep technical expertise in AWS/GCP with proven leadership capabilities in team development, stakeholder management, and data-driven decision making. Passionate about developing talent, fostering collaboration across engineering organizations, and delivering measurable business outcomes through strategic infrastructure initiatives.

Experience

Engineering Manager - Cloud/SRE

Taxfix
Jun. 2024 - Current

Lead and develop a 5-person Cloud/SRE team within the Platform Group, driving reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across Taxfix's engineering organization. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with business objectives, while mentoring engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Achievements:
  • Built and scaled the SRE team through strategic hiring, structured onboarding programs, and continuous professional development initiatives.
  • Established mentorship framework that accelerated team members' growth in cloud technologies, SRE practices, and leadership capabilities.
  • Led organization through first peak traffic season with zero incidents, contributing to record profitability in company history.
  • Orchestrated onboarding of multiple acquired companies into unified cloud infrastructure.

Systems Engineer

Bonial
Sep. 2020 - Jun. 2024

Worked in the systems engineering team managing mission-critical infrastructure serving 4M+ monthly active users. Collaborated with product and engineering teams to optimize deployment pipelines, strengthen security posture, and improve operational efficiency.

Key Achievements:
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines using Spinnaker and Jenkins, reducing deployment time by 60% while improving reliability.
  • Led SecOps initiative integrated with AWS SecurityHub.
  • Mentored junior engineers on Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud architecture best practices.

DevOps Chapter Leader

Stoodi
Jun. 2019 - Sep. 2020

Built and led DevOps team from the ground up, establishing team culture, hiring practices, and operational processes.

Key Achievements:
  • Recruited, hired, and onboarded high-performing DevOps team of 5 engineers.
  • Delivered infrastructure supporting 5M+ visitors during peak days.
  • Achieved 40x traffic growth with <1% cost increase through data-driven resource optimization.

Head of Engineering

Eclabs (eCGroup)
Jan. 2019 - Jun. 2019

Provided technical leadership for cloud strategy and engineering operations across multiple development teams.

Key Achievements:
  • Led organizational transformation from siloed teams to collaborative agile squads.
  • Established transparent project management practices, improving on-time delivery from 40% to 95%.