I'm Jorge Hermes, a fifth-semester Software Engineering student at UEPA (4.0 GPA) from Belém, Pará, Brazil. My programming journey began at age 8, and today I have proven professional experience in DevOps, Software Architecture, and distributed systems.
🚀 Currently
- DevOps Engineer Intern @ DreamSquad — CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, system-layer monitoring for client companies
- Technical Researcher @ Ministry of Health (PET-Saúde Digital) — data intelligence, Design Thinking, data security
💼 Previously
- Software Architect Intern @ Gaudium — architectural modernization in PHP/Go, observability, resilience patterns
- Software Engineer Intern @ COSANPA — industrial monitoring systems, database modeling
🏆 Recognition
- Speaker @ AWS Summit São Paulo 2026 — the only AWS Student Builder Group Leader in Brazil selected, talking DevOps at the Community Developer Lounge
- First GitHub Campus Expert in Northern Brazil
- First AWS Student Builder Group Leader in Northern Brazil — international reference of leadership & group success for SBGLs worldwide
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (Jul 2026)
- AWS Certified AI Practitioner (Aug 2026)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (912/1000)
- Google Cybersecurity Certificate
🌐 Community & Leadership
- Founder & Leader — AWS Student Builder Group UEPA — 314+ members, first in Northern Brazil and an international quality reference: SBGLs and SBCLs from other regions and countries reach out for guidance, and the model inspired chapters at UFPA, UNAMA, IFPA, Estácio, Faci Wyden and Cruzeiro do Sul (first meetup on cloud fundamentals with 200+ in-person attendees · 1st cloud computing CTF on AWS security · AWS AI&ML Day — 100% volunteer-run)
- Core team: 80% employability in tech, 5 of 6 AWS certified (2 at Associate level)
- AWS Student Builder Campus Leader — mentor and invite new SBGLs, turning other universities into official groups
- Leader @ Kortex UFPA · Kernel UEPA · GruPy Pará
- CTO @ CAESoft (UEPA Academic Center)
- Organizer — AWS Community Day Norte · Python Norte 2026
📦 Notable Projects
- SIGRA — led architecture, DevOps, infra & teams for an academic reservation system in production @ UEPA Ananindeua
- Kener — open-source contributor to a status page & uptime monitoring platform
- AWS Terraform modules — public, reusable modules for EC2, VPC, Security Groups & Auto Scaling
- Roblox — high-concurrency engineering on systems with 800M+ visits
🎯 Goal: Specialize as a DevSecOps Engineer, automating and securing the full software delivery pipeline — from code to production.
🌍 Native Portuguese · Fluent English (C2) · Learning German & Spanish
