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Luis Motta Campos

Database Reliability Technical Leader

€1,066/day
Barcelona, ES
15+ years
AWS Solutions Architect
Cloud architect
Database Reliability Engineering
Tech Lead
Tech Mentor

Average response time: 1 hour

About Luis

AWS Certified Solutions Architect with 20+ years modernising data infrastructure for firms like Cisco and eBay. Specialise in DBRE, architecture governance, operations automation, and high-stakes monolith decompositions using AWS and Terraform. Proven track record partnering with C-suite leadership and Architecture Boards to eliminate technical debt, shifting infrastructure from a cost centre to a strategic growth multiplier.
Digital and IT Services
Digital Business Models

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • Dutch

    Basic

  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Cisco Systems (cisco.com
    Database Reliability Technical Leader
    TECH
    June 2022 - February 2026 (3 years and 8 months)
    Barcelona, Spain

    Main responsibilities

    • As a Member of the Architecture Board, influence architectural decisions across Engineering.
    • Lead deployment, monitoring, and day-by-day operation of all RDBMS within ThousandEyes.
    • Mentor more junior engineers, supporting their growth and cultivating their technical and personal skills.
    • Driving automation to increase ops consistency, efficiency, and reduce human errors, MTTR.

    Main achievements

    • Over $1.5M saved yearly via planning and upgrading our RDBMS park, avoiding extended support fees.
    • Reduced RDBMS incidents by 40% via operational and development best practices.
    • Delivered significant savings in COGS and OpEx via database standardisation.
    • Coordinated 30 teams in 5 time-zones to split a RDBMS monolith into 8 clusters over the course of a year.
    • Restructured the Datastores team as a centre of excellence, so it can scale to the organisation’s needs.
    Cloud architect Database Reliability Engineering DevOps FinOps Tech Lead
  • Coursera (coursera.org)
    Sr. Staff Database Reliability Engineer, Datastores Team
    TECH
    April 2021 - March 2022 (11 months)
    Toronto, ON, Canada

    Main responsibilities

    • As a Member of the Architecture Board, influence architectural decisions across Engineering.
    • Drive operations and automation development within the Datastores team.
    • Specify, deploy, monitor, and operate data-storage resources to be used by the whole engineering.
    • Mentor engineers and standardised data storage solutions organisation-wide.

    Main achievements

    • Helped organising and structuring the very first Systems Architecture Board in Coursera.
    • Started the foundations for a Database Reliability Engineering center of excellence.
    • With support from management and my teammates, restructured the way the Datastores team worked achieving improved throughput and quality of life improvements for team members.
    Cloud architect Database Reliability Engineering DevOps Tech Lead Distributed Architecture
  • PagerDuty (pagerduty.com)
    Principal Database Reliability Engineer, Data-Storage team
    TECH
    June 2016 - March 2021 (4 years and 9 months)
    Toronto, ON, Canada

    Main responsibilities

    • As a Member of the Architecture Board, influence architectural decisions across Engineering.
    • Raise the knowledge level and foment a strong DBRE mindset within the Engineering organisation.
    • Advise teams and senior leadership within my domain of specialisation.

    Main achievements

    • Built the Database Reliability team from scratch, hiring and training five engineers and a people manager.
    • Modernised and automated database infrastructure using industry best practices.
    • Raised the overall RDBMS knowledge across the engineering organisation through training, workshops, empowerment, and personalised support.
    • Drove the planning and execution of two major version upgrade projects, achieving US$100K+ COGS savings each time and greatly reducing the platform’s operational risks.
    • Lead the adoption of the AWS Cloud in my team with research, docs and Terraform automation.
    • Standardised AWS infrastructure via Terraform Modules; led educational workshops and mentoring.
    Tech Lead FinOps AWS Solutions Architect Database Reliability Engineering Cloud architect
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Education

  • Post-Graduation Specialisation
    Universidades Associadas de São Paulo
    2005
    Post-Graduation Specialisation
  • Bachelor's Degree in
    Universidade Fundação de Ensino Inaciano
    2003
    Bachelor's Degree in
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