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Ricardo Amaro

Ricardo Amaro

Acquia Inc. - Senior Engineering Manager /Drupal Portugal

Acquia Inc. - Manager Senior de Engenharia /Drupal Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

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Ricardo Amaro is a Senior Engineering Manager at Acquia Inc., a company based in Boston, USA, where he focuses on large-scale software delivery performance. In Portugal, he is president of the Drupal Portugal Association, Localization lead and a Phd Researcher in DevOps.
With a diversified career in both the public and private sectors in Portugal, he promotes Agile techniques and the DevOps culture. He has led development and operations teams and projects in South Africa, Germany and the United States. An advocate of digital rights and freedoms. Ricardo is inspired by the transformative potential of OpenSource communities. Since the 1990s Ricardo has been involved with open technologies such as Linux, becoming an expert and contributor in Drupal and Cloud Native, such as Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, among others.

Ricardo is co-author of the book "Seeking SRE", addressing the use of Machine Learning for SRE, published by O'REILLY in 2018. His published scientific articles include:
"DevOps Metrics and KPIs: A Multivocal Literature Review". ACM - Computing Surveys (2024);
"Capabilities and metrics in DevOps: A design science study". Information & Management (2023);
"DevOps benefits: A systematic literature review". Software: Practice and Experience (2022);
"Capabilities and Practices in DevOps: A Multivocal Literature Review". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2022).

Ricardo Amaro é Manager Senior de Engenharia na Acquia Inc., uma empresa sediada em Boston, EUA, onde se foca na performance de entrega de software em larga escala. Em Portugal, é presidente da Associação Drupal Portugal, líder de localização e investigador doutorado em DevOps.
Com uma carreira diversificada nos sectores público e privado em Portugal, promove as técnicas Agile e a cultura DevOps. Liderou equipas de desenvolvimento e operações e projectos na África do Sul, Alemanha e Estados Unidos. Defensor dos direitos e liberdades digitais. Ricardo é inspirado pelo potencial transformador das comunidades OpenSource. Desde a década de 1990, Ricardo está envolvido com tecnologias abertas, como Linux, tornando-se um especialista e colaborador em Drupal e Cloud Native, como Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, entre outros.

Ricardo é coautor do livro "Seeking SRE", abordando o uso de Machine Learning para SRE, publicado pela O'REILLY em 2018. Os seus artigos científicos publicados incluem:
"DevOps Metrics and KPIs: A Multivocal Literature Review". ACM - Computing Surveys (2024);
"Capacidades e métricas em DevOps: Um estudo de design science". Information & Management (2023);
"Benefícios do DevOps: A systematic literature review". Software: Practice and Experience (2022);
"Capacidades e práticas em DevOps: uma revisão multivocal da literatura". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2022).

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  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information

Ricardo Amaro

Acquia Inc. - Senior Engineering Manager /Drupal Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

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