About me

My name is João Grade. I work at the intersection of enterprise infrastructure, virtualization platforms, and hybrid cloud architecture.

Over the past 15+ years I have worked in large-scale environments supporting critical infrastructure across multiple datacenters. My experience ranges from hands-on systems engineering to leading technical teams responsible for virtualization platforms, compute infrastructure, and disaster recovery operations.

Much of my work today focuses on helping organizations modernize traditional datacenter environments while maintaining operational stability. This includes areas such as virtualization strategy, hybrid cloud adoption, disaster recovery design, and infrastructure automation.

I have spent a large part of my career working with technologies like VMware vSphere, ESXi, Horizon, Hyper-V, and enterprise server platforms, while more recently expanding into cloud architecture and infrastructure as code.

Through this blog, I occasionally share reflections from real-world infrastructure environments, lessons learned from modernization initiatives, and thoughts on how organizations can evolve their platforms without disrupting the systems they depend on every day.

Outside of my professional work, I remain a curious technologist with interests in distributed systems, networking, automation, and the broader evolution of enterprise infrastructure.