About me

Hello! I am Kelson Martins, a software engineer from Brazil living in Ireland.

Graduated with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Munster Technological University Cork and a Maser’s degree in Computer Science from Griffith College Dublin, I am passionate about software development practices and more than that, passionate about solving technical problems in a simple and effective manner.

Currently

Software Engineer helping IBM to develop and deploy cloud-native security solutions using DevOps principles across major Kubernetes vendors.
Previously, I have had a big involvement with the Elastic Stack where I deployed and maintained an efficient and reliable log management infrastructure. I achieved this by deploying and maintaining a series of multi-node Elasticsearch Clusters, processing millions of events daily on its pipelines.
Technologies that I have been working with professionally include Java, Golang, Python, Git, SQL Server, Ansible, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Graphite & Grafana, Kubernetes, Openshift, Node.js, Cassandra and AngularJS.

A while ago

In the past, I also worked for companies developing software for different sectors such as transport, food, education, manufacturing, and government focusing mainly on ERP development using a proprietary language derived from Clipper called AdvPL.

Certifications

• Red Hat Certified Engineer
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Openshift Administration
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes
• Certified Red Hat System Administrator
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Jenkins Certified Engineer
• Apache Cassandra Administrator Associate
• Apache Cassandra Developer Associate
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Scrum Foundations Professional Certificate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
• LPI Linux Essentials Certification

When Out of Office

In my spare time, you may find me running, travelling, watching a football match or drinking a pint of Guinness in an Irish pub.

• IBM People’s Choice Culture Award Award received for helping IBM to drive a culture that embraces a growth mindset, radical candor and an entrepreneurial spirit.

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award received for my work using the Easticsearch, Logstash and Kibana stack as a tool for log analysis and analytics.
• Best in Show Award – Winner of first Irelands’ Fintech Hackathon Project: Savetastic. See more on the Irish Times
• People’s Choice Award – Winner of Dublin Global Game Jam 2015 Project: Treasagh
• Best in Show Award – Winner of Science Hackday Dublin 2015 Project: DoorWatch

Contact Me

Find me on Twitter @iamkelson or Linkedin