Maximiano Tomé

Profile

Infrastructure & Observability Engineer with over 15 years of experience specializing in automated deployments, Splunk enterprise architectures, and CI/CD optimization across high-tech and telecom environments. Skilled in building resilient monitoring ecosystems, streamlining delivery pipelines, and writing custom Python/Bash integrations to bridge complex infrastructure tools.

Experience

Alten DC / ASML

Full Remote

Infrastructure Software Engineer

Sep 2022 - Present

  • Ansible developer for automated Splunk infrastructure deployment.
  • Developer and second line support of Splunk and Splunk ITSI infrastructures.
  • Implemented and optimized CI/CD pipelines for test automation in install/upgrade scenarios, reducing manual testing and improving code validation across several environments.
  • Enhanced team productivity with Pull Request pipelines, by implementing Unit Testing, Linting and Way of Work validations.
  • Developed and enhanced Splunk custom commands (in Python), for data enrichment and integration with external APIs and Services.
  • Ansible
  • Splunk
  • Splunk ITSI
  • Splunk OTEL
  • Python
  • Azure
  • Agile
  • Unit Testing
  • HAProxy
  • CI/CD
  • Git
  • JIRA
  • Copilot
  • Linux
  • RHEL

Syone SBS / Vodafone Portugal

Porto, PT

Operations and Performance Engineer

Sep 2008 - Aug 2022

  • Implemented real time KPIs and Log visibility using both Splunk and ELK, improving several services' performance and troubleshooting.
  • Worked with Splunk, Elastic Stack (ELK) and Centreon, as a solution engineer, administrator and developer.
  • Developed several Python and Bash scripts for Splunk custom commands and Centreon plugins.
  • Developed a Splunk custom command in Python, for seamlessly querying ELK clusters.
  • Second Line Support and Maintenance & Operation of services such as SMS Center, Voice Mail, Speech to Text, Ring Back Tones and Apache/Tomcat/Oracle on top of RHEL.
  • Splunk
  • ELK
  • Python
  • Bash
  • RHEL
  • Centreon
  • SNMP
  • DNS
  • SMS
  • Voice Mail
  • Speech to Text
  • Ring Back Tones
  • Apache
  • Tomcat
  • Oracle

certifications

  • Google AI Essentials

    Coursera (2026)

  • Dive Into Ansible - Beginner to Expert

    Udemy (2025)

  • Docker Mastery with Kubernetes and Swarm

    Udemy (2025)

  • The Complete Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin Course

    Udemy (2025)

  • Splunk - Zero to Power User

    Udemy (2024)

Personal Projects

Self Hosting of Open Source Applications

  • Self hosting of several open source applications on Debian servers with Podman (Quadlets), including Navidrome, Vaultwarden and Immich, among others.
  • Monitoring with Grafana, Victoriametrics, Node-exporter and Uptime Kuma, integrated with Ntfy and Telegram for notifications.
  • Frontend using Nginx for reverse proxying and secure tunneling using Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared).
  • Secure remote access to the servers using Tailscale and Cloudflare Zero Trust.
  • 3-2-1 rule backups managed with Hetzner Storage Box, with encrypted storage using rclone.
  • Previous experience with Fail2ban and CrowdSec.
  • Using Cloudflare workers for caching of static content (for instance, my personal website).
  • Linux
  • Debian
  • Podman
  • Navidrome
  • Cloudflare Tunnel
  • Tailscale
  • Grafana
  • Victoriametrics
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Nginx
  • Fail2ban
  • CrowdSec

Aonsoku Flatpak Package

  • Creator and maintainer of the official Flatpak package for Aonsoku (an audio player for Subsonic/Navidrome servers).
  • Flatpak
  • Makefile
  • YAML

Wavlink Multiple Screen Device

  • Ported the Wavlink Multiple Screen device module to Fedora, enabling support for Wavlink's multi-screen USB devices on the Fedora operating system (currently inactive).
  • Shell
  • Linux
  • Fedora
  • Kernel Modules

Education

  • MSc Computer Science

    University of Porto, Portugal

  • BSc Networks and IT Systems Engineering

    University of Porto, Portugal

photo of me

Skills

    • Infrastructure & Automation
    • Ansible/YAML
    • Docker
    • Podman
    • Kubernetes
    • CI/CD Pipelines
    • Azure
      Observability Tools
    • Splunk
    • Splunk ITSI
    • Splunk OTEL
    • Grafana
    • Prometheus
    • Victoriametrics
    • Elastic Stack (ELK)
      Operating Systems
    • RHEL
    • CentOS
    • Fedora
    • Debian
    • Ubuntu
    • Windows/WSL
      Programming
    • Ansible
    • Python
    • Bash
    • Perl
      Developer Tools
    • Git
    • Bitbucket
    • Visual Studio Code
    • JIRA
    • Azure
    • Copilot
      Networking & Web
    • TCP/IP
    • SSL/TLS
    • DNS
    • SNMP
    • SMTP
    • HTTP/HTTPS
    • HAProxy
    • Nginx
    • Apache

Languages

  • Portuguese
    Native
  • English
    C1

Interests

  • Self Hosting
  • Open Source
  • Linux
  • A.I.
  • Cloudflare
  • Music/Audio