George Ferreira

George Ferreira

Building High-Performance Teams & Disruptive Products.

I am a technology leader with a passion for helping people grow. With over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, I have developed a deep understanding of the impact of disruptive technologies on businesses and individuals. As a leader, I have always been committed to fostering a culture of mentorship and growth within my teams.

I firmly believe that investing in people is the key to unlocking their potential and driving innovation. Whether it's through coaching, training, or simply leading by example, I take pride in helping my team members develop their skills and achieve their goals.

My experience (resumé)

Experience

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Upright, New York

As the Upright's CTO, I've been challenged with leading a group of brilliant engineers through two rounds of layoffs, and a complete rebranding. I've been responsible for the technical vision and strategy, as well as fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Director, EA, PE, IT, Business Systems

Upright, New York

Overseeing Enterprise Architecture (EA), Platform Engineering (PE), IT and Business Systems at Upright, I've been able to combine a migration to micro-services with IT and Business Systems initiatives, consolidating tooling and streamlining processes throughout the business.

Director, Platform Engineering

Upright, New York

Building the team from 1 Platform Engineer (myself) to a group of 9 engineers at all levels of experience, and completed a cloud migration from Heroku to AWS. Released an Internal Developer Portal enabling developers to very quickly create a new micro-service from a pre-defined template, inclusive of a complete CI/CD pipeline, underlying infrastructure and working code.

DevOps Engineer

Upright, New York

As Upright's first DevOps engineer, I was able to help build the company's Data Pipeline infrastructure, create micro-services templates, containerize legacy Ruby on Rails applications. Enhanced the company's security posture not only for the Engineering organization, but also for overall IT by working alongside the IT manager.

Head, Site Reliability Engineering Amer

Murex, New York

Grew the team from 3 to 10 engineers supporting over 60 clients in the Americas. Personally responsible for supporting two of the biggest accounts in the Americas, increased the teams delivery, accountability and overall client satisfaction. The team was able to increase system availability from under 87% to 99.93% for over 63% of the client base.

Site Reliability Engineer

Murex, New York

Supporting 30 clients, four of the biggest accounts in the Americas, was able to maintain SLAs and rarely breach SLOs. In one of the most challenging projects, I was able to reduce the overnight batch processing of one of the biggest banks in LATAM from 15 hours to under 4 hours.

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