Cloud · DevOps · Security

I started in a control room.
Now I do it in the cloud.

Six years running the HMI/SCADA systems of a thermal power plant at 99.9% availability. Then industrial cybersecurity under IEC 62443. Today, the same discipline applied to cloud infrastructure: pipelines, observability, and production that cannot go down.

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Operations

What I take on

Four fronts. In all of them the deliverable is the same: someone who answers when the system stops at three in the morning.

Cloud migration

Azure · AWS

Assessment, landing zone design, and execution. A real inventory before the plan, defined waves, and a rollback runbook written before the cutover. FinOps included, because migrating without controlling cost only moves the problem.

DevOps and automation

IaC · CI/CD

Terraform as the default way to build, pipelines in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins, and Kubernetes when the problem actually warrants Kubernetes. Environments that rebuild from scratch instead of getting patched.

Observability

Metrics · Logs

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Azure Monitor. The hard part is not the tooling, it is the alerting strategy: alarms that map to user-visible impact, not to resource thresholds. An on-call rotation that receives noise stops reading the pager.

Security

IAM · Compliance

Identity and secrets management, infrastructure hardening as code, and compliance where it carries weight: LGPD, ISO 27001, SOX, HIPAA, and IEC 62443 in industrial environments.

Record

Twenty years of continuous trace

A schematic record, drawn in the format of chart recorder paper. The trace follows the criticality of the systems that became my responsibility; the four marked points are the turns that explain the path.

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Point list

Tooling

CloudAzure · AWS · Google Cloud · hybrid and multi-cloud
Infrastructure as codeTerraform · ARM · Bicep · CloudFormation · Ansible
CI/CDAzure DevOps · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · CloudBees · Bamboo
ContainersKubernetes · AKS · EKS · Docker · Helm
ObservabilityPrometheus · Grafana · Loki · AlertManager · Azure Monitor · Application Insights · ELK · Datadog
DataPostgreSQL · SQL Server · Azure SQL · MySQL · Redis · Cosmos DB
SecurityIAM · Key Vault · Secrets Manager · Sentinel · Purview · zero-trust · IEC 62443
AutomationPython · PowerShell · Bash · Boto3
ComplianceLGPD · GDPR · ISO 27001 · SOX · HIPAA · PCI DSS · IEC 62443
Certifications

Verifiable

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Azure Solutions Architect Expert
DevOps Engineer Expert
Azure Administrator Associate
Azure Network Engineer Associate
Azure Security Engineer Associate
Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
ITIL Foundation
Working together

The answers before you ask

The questions that usually cost two or three emails, answered here instead.

Engagement
Contractor through DMENGARELLI TI, my own company. Corp-to-corp for international clients, PJ in Brazil.
Where I am
Londrina, Paraná, Brazil. Argentine national with permanent Brazilian residency, so no sponsorship is needed anywhere I work.
Hours
Brasília time, UTC-3. A full working day overlaps the Americas, and the morning overlaps Europe.
How it starts
A thirty-minute call at no charge. If I am not the right person for the problem, I say so on that call.
Languages
English, Portuguese and Spanish. Calls, documentation and handover in any of them.
What I do not do
Full-time employment, relocation, and work I cannot own end to end. I would rather turn something down than staff it badly.
Availability
Taking on new work now, alongside current engagements. Tell me the scope and the date, and I will say plainly whether it fits.
Contact

Tell me what cannot go down.

The first conversation is a diagnostic, not a sales pitch. Thirty minutes, no charge. If I am not the right person for your problem, I will say so on the same call.

David Mengarelli
David MengarelliFounder and principal engineer. Twenty years in critical infrastructure, from power plant control systems to cloud production.
Londrina, PREN · PT · ES
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