Ok, let’s make this long story short and interesting somehow 😀
Who am I
My name is Eduardo Ferrari and today I’m a husband, a father, a hobbyist with my home lab and I’m also Azure Cloud Solutions Architect.
I think this is a good basic summary…
The beginning
I was born on May 1982 in São Paulo - Brazil. As a kid, I loved taking apart my toys to see how they work, the small electric motors, the gears, how the circuit boards look like… Yeah… I broke a lot of them, but I also learned a ton in the process.
First computer
This was so nice, in 1989 (7 years old) my father came home from the work with a PC, this beautiful one that you see on this picture.
With this PC I started to learning BASIC and writing some small fun programs, making “beep” musics, drawing lines moving the cursor, good times…
The College
Since I had this curiosity about electronics and my father used to work with electrical installations and other stuff, I attend a technical high school focused in Electric-Electronic. These 3 years were amazing, I have learned a lot and I made such nice good friends there.
Self Learning
My uncle had studies on Data Processing too and I saw him writing some cool MS-DOS programs and I asked him about how he does it, and… I started to learn Clipper 🙂
I remember that I wrote a program for a friend in the college, his family has some Flower Stores and they needed a system to keep track of the customers and some sales data… That was my very first real project 😀
Regarding the .Net, since I have been working with VB for a long time, when I saw the news about .Net I got so impressed and I decided to deep dive into it.
I started with the Framework 1.0 (beta 2) as you can see on the picture below. I still have these CDs, it holds a lot of sentimental value for me.
And you can say… Ok you are a MS guy, 100%??? No… look to this… Since the internet connection wasn’t the best to download big files, I have bought my first Linux Distro. Was a Conectiva Linux 4, a Brazilian version based on Fedora - Red Hat. You can read more about it here on Wikipedia (sorry it is in Portuguese).
The University
I have a bachelor degree in Computer Science, 2000 - 2004, formed at USCS - Universidade São Caetano do Sul .
University gave me the theory and explanations behind things I had taught myself years earlier and I just knew that ‘Ok, it works!’ but without knowing why or how.
My career
This is where things start to get more interesting, let’s go in a summary approach, you can get more details on my LinkedIn Profile , so here is a summary of my work life from 2000-06 until now 2025-09.
I have over 20 years of experience as a software developer, mainly working with .NET C#, I have been working in many different companies with different sizes and business. I began my professional career in 2000 in Brazil, in 2016 I was working at Scania in Brazil and I was invited to join the Scania Sweden moving here with my family and starting a new chapter in both my career and our lives.
In Brazil I have worked in small and big companies, from many business sectors such as:
- Accounting offices
- Banks
- Benefit cards
- Constructions companies
- Financial companies
- Insurances
- State companies and more
And in all these companies also with different technologies like:
- VB 6 / VB.Net
- ASP III
- C#
- SQL Server
- Oracle
- DB2
- Websites
- WebServices
- APIs
- Windows Forms
- Firewalls
- Proxies
- ADCs
At Scania in Sweden, I began my Cloud Journey being part of the Cloud Adoption team on the AWS team, a year later I moved to the Azure Foundation team in Cloud Adoption where I got the biggest part of my cloud skills and also improved a lot my management and leader skills driving the Azure Environment at Scania.
My main functions today are:
- Design and implement Azure Foundation based on MSCAF
- Lead a Cloud Developer team that works developing it with me
- Providing architectural guidance to customers to implement their solutions in cloud following all the Well-Architected Framework pillars
- Provisioning and delivery Azure Subscriptions and vNets to the customers (Scania Developer Teams)