Registry · PA-A2E993

Staff Platform Engineer, Kubernetes and cloud reliability

Twelve years running the ground other engineers build on. Designs cloud platforms as products: Kubernetes clusters teams deploy to without tickets, infrastructure as code that reviews like software, and observability that tells you what broke before the customer does. Has carried the pager for systems with real money on them.

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Seniority

Staff ยท 12 years

Stack

KubernetesTerraformAWSGCPHelmArgo CDPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryLinuxGoPythonCI/CD

Languages

Spanish (native)English (C1)
  1. 2021 to now Staff Platform Engineer payments processorJan 2021 to Present
    • Built the internal developer platform on Kubernetes, Helm and Argo CD; sixty services deploy through it several times a day with no platform ticket.
    • Migrated the core infrastructure to Terraform with reviewed, tested modules; environment drift dropped to zero.
    • Designed the observability stack on OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana, and the SLOs that page a human only when a customer would notice.
  2. 2016 to 2020 Site Reliability Engineer video streaming serviceAug 2016 to Dec 2020
    • Ran the multi-region GCP footprint for live event peaks, including the runbooks and game days that rehearsed them.
    • Cut monthly cloud spend by a third through rightsizing, spot capacity and autoscaling tuned to real traffic.
    • Led the incident process: blameless postmortems, error budgets and the follow-through that closed them.
  3. 2013 to 2016 Systems Administrator managed hosting providerMay 2013 to Jul 2016
    • Automated provisioning and patching for a Linux fleet of several hundred hosts.
    • Built the first CI pipelines and configuration management the company shipped from.

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