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Rafael Santos

DevOps Engineer · Stahls' · 1y 7mo

Wizard submission · v1 · 3 skill gaps · 3 action items

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Wizard submission awaiting review. Rafael Santos completed the IDP wizard. Read the plan below; once you're aligned, your TSM converts it into the agreement flow so monthly check-ins can begin.

Plan submitted via wizard

Submitted Nov 11, 2026 · version 1. This is the talent's own input - read it before the next 1:1.

10-year vision

Lead platform engineering for a product company - owning the developer platform every team ships on.

3-year direction

Grow into a Staff Platform Engineer who sets the infrastructure direction across teams.

Role family: Deep specialist · Target seniority: Staff Platform Engineer

1-year target

Today: DevOps Engineer · In 12 months: Senior Platform Engineer

I want to move from keeping pipelines green to designing the platform itself - owning cost, reliability and the developer experience end to end.

Skill gaps (3)

  • KubernetesHigh
    Technical · Intermediate → Advanced
  • Cloud cost managementHigh
    Domain knowledge · Beginner → Intermediate
  • Writing RFCsMedium
    Communication · Beginner → Intermediate

Quarterly action plan (3)

Q1 · Jan–Mar
  • Move the staging cluster to EKS with reusable Terraform modules

    Evidence - Staging runs on EKS and two teams reuse the modules

    Linked to: Kubernetes · Owner: Talent (me) · Target Jan 7, 2027

  • Run a monthly AWS cost review with the engineering leads

    Evidence - Cost dashboard in use and 10% lower monthly spend

    Linked to: Cloud cost management · Owner: Talent (me) · Target Mar 13, 2027

Q4 · Oct–Dec
  • Write the RFC for the new CI pipeline

    Evidence - RFC approved by the platform leads

    Linked to: Writing RFCs · Owner: Talent (me) · Target Dec 18, 2026

Learning (2)

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
    Certification · Linux Foundation · linked to Kubernetes
  • Cloud FinOps
    Book · O'Reilly · linked to Cloud cost management

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