Whoever builds it keeps it standing.

Pedro Sampaio

Development and technical lead

Twelve years building for the web. Long enough to have watched a site launch, deliver, age badly and need rescuing — and that, more than any technology, is what teaches you to build with what comes after launch day in mind.

Looks after what the client sees and what holds up what they see: research, interface design, data modeling, integration with ERPs and payment providers, and the architecture call that decides whether a system ages well or becomes debt within two years.

DevOps and continuous delivery

The part of the work a client only notices when it fails. Builds the pipeline that takes code from the repository to production with no manual step: automated builds, a staging environment that matches production, and a deploy that undoes itself when something slips through.

Also the one who instruments what’s running — logs, alerts and metrics — so a problem shows up on a dashboard before it shows up as a customer complaint. Software nobody watches isn’t under control; it’s running on luck.

Infrastructure and reliability

Sizes and maintains the ground the application stands on: servers, network, database, certificates, backups and restores. The difference between having a backup and having a backup that comes back is a test — and that test comes from here.

Works cost alongside capacity. A good share of a company’s cloud bill is machines oversized out of caution, and correcting that usually pays for the work itself within the first six months.