André Cardoso

Profile

Systems administrator with around 5 years of experience across IT support, Linux and Windows servers and infrastructure monitoring, now moving into DevOps. I currently look after the network, servers and backups of an organisation with more than 800 employees. Outside work I run my own production VPS with Docker, nginx, Cloudflare and Wazuh, hosting several apps I built myself, and I automate business processes with Python, PowerShell and OpenRPA.

Technical skills

Containers & deployment

Docker, Docker Compose, nginx (reverse proxy), Jenkins, Git, GitHub

Networking & web

Cloudflare DNS, Let's Encrypt / TLS, DHCP, Active Directory, secure remote access

Monitoring & security

Zabbix, Grafana, Prometheus, Wazuh (SIEM), Fail2Ban, Dozzle, server hardening

Systems

Linux (Debian, Mint), Windows Server, backups

Scripting & automation

Bash, Python, PowerShell, OpenRPA (SAP)

Development

React, Node.js, Express, REST APIs

Experience

Projects

• Caderneta – Multi-user web app in production that reads screenshots with OCR and turns them into stats. React, Docker, nginx, Cloudflare; deployment moving to Jenkins.
• VPS security monitoring – Wazuh SIEM, firewall and Dozzle on an internet-facing server, with real-time alerts on login attempts and scans.
• Vivace Beauty – Client landing page for a salon in Peniche: React + C#, own .pt domain, nginx in Docker, one-command deploy script.
• Horas – Self-hosted time-clock app in Docker behind nginx with HTTPS.
• andrecardoso.dev – Pre-rendered React site and Node API with Docker Compose, nginx and Let's Encrypt, with technical articles.