# About

> About Raphael Moura - Senior Cloud & AI Architect

- Author: Raphael Moura
- Published: 2024-01-01
- Canonical HTML: https://raphamoura.dev/en/about/
- Markdown (PT): https://raphamoura.dev/about/index.md


Senior Cloud & AI Architect with over 10 years designing high-scale distributed systems, now focused on agentic engineering: building the operating system around AI coding agents that makes their output verifiable and safe to merge.

That work is public: [Spec-Anchored Agentic Development](/en/blog/spec-anchored-agentic-development/) is the spec-first engineering system for Claude Code that I wrote and run as my daily driver. Over the last three months: 103 PRs across 30 repositories, client and personal work, the large majority through its human-gated workflow, and no autonomous merges yet, by design. The thesis: an agent is a component in a distributed system. It needs explicit contracts, verification at the boundary, observability and cost control, or it stays a demo.

I spent the previous decade building those disciplines: event-driven and serverless architectures for US, Irish and Brazilian companies, a real-time operational data hub for a major airline, and Kafka and Spark streaming pipelines for Itaú Unibanco, the largest bank in Latin America. AWS 7x certified, AWS Community Builder, Go in the backend toolkit. I work remotely as a B2B contractor for US and global companies.

### Awards & Recognition

- **AWS Builder of the Year 2025** - Selected by the AWS LATAM community
- **AWS Community Builder** (since 2019) - Producing content on AWS for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn
- **AWS Game Day 2019** - AWS architecture and troubleshooting competition

### AWS Recognition

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  <img src="/images/aws-community-builder.png" alt="AWS Community Builder" title="AWS Community Builder">
  <img src="/images/aws-user-group-leader.png" alt="AWS User Group Leader" title="AWS User Group Leader">
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### AWS Certifications

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  <img src="https://images.credly.com/size/340x340/images/2d84e428-9078-49b6-a804-13c15383d0de/image.png" alt="AWS Solutions Architect Professional" title="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional">
  <img src="https://images.credly.com/size/340x340/images/bd31ef42-d460-493e-8503-39592aaf0458/image.png" alt="AWS DevOps Engineer Professional" title="AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional">
  <img src="https://images.credly.com/size/340x340/images/53acdae5-d69f-4dda-b650-d02ed7a50dd7/image.png" alt="AWS Security Specialty" title="AWS Certified Security - Specialty">
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  <img src="https://images.credly.com/images/b9feab85-1a43-4f6c-99a5-631b88d5461b/image.png" alt="AWS Developer Associate" title="AWS Certified Developer - Associate">
  <img src="https://images.credly.com/size/340x340/images/f0d3fbb9-bfa7-4017-9989-7bde8eaf42b1/image.png" alt="AWS SysOps Administrator Associate" title="AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate">
  <img src="https://images.credly.com/size/340x340/images/0e284c3f-5164-4b21-8660-0d84737941bc/image.png" alt="AWS Solutions Architect Associate" title="AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate">
  <img src="https://images.credly.com/size/340x340/images/00634f82-b07f-4bbd-a6bb-53de397fc3a6/image.png" alt="AWS Cloud Practitioner" title="AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner">
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### Skills & Technologies

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  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fab fa-aws"></i> AWS</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-robot"></i> AI Agents</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-terminal"></i> Claude Code</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-brain"></i> Context Engineering</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-drafting-compass"></i> Solution Architecture</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-network-wired"></i> Distributed Systems</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-dharmachakra"></i> Kubernetes</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-code"></i> Go</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-heartbeat"></i> SRE</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-database"></i> PostgreSQL</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-coins"></i> FinOps</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-chart-line"></i> Observability</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-users-cog"></i> Tech Leadership</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-shield-alt"></i> Disaster Recovery</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-sitemap"></i> Systems Design</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-project-diagram"></i> Event-Driven</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-stream"></i> Kafka</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-sync-alt"></i> CI/CD</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-cube"></i> Terraform</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-file-code"></i> IaC</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-exchange-alt"></i> gRPC</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-cubes"></i> Microservices</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fab fa-python"></i> Python</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-server"></i> High Availability</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fab fa-docker"></i> Docker</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-search"></i> Elasticsearch</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fab fa-linux"></i> Linux</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-cogs"></i> Ansible</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-cloud"></i> ECS</span>
  <span class="skill-tag"><i class="fas fa-user-shield"></i> DevSecOps</span>
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### Community

- Co-Organizer AWS Community Day Brazil (2021 - present)
- Co-Organizer Serverless Days São Paulo (2023 - present)
- Co-Organizer and Creator of Cloud Summit Cerrado (2019 - present)