Hi, my name is

Andres.

I am an SRE

I have experience in ensuring the integrity, performance, automation, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of cloud-based infrastructure.

About Me

I am a Site Reliability Engineer with experience in managing and maintaining cloud-based systems. I have a background in Electrical Engineering, and I have a strong interest in programming, cost-effective and disaster recovery solutions, and reliability.

I am currently working as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at ForgeRock in Vancouver, Canada.

Here are a few technologies I've been working with recently:
  • GCP and AWS
  • Kubernetes - Kustomize and Helm
  • Terraform
  • Argo
  • Golang
  • CICD
  • Vue

Experience

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Forgerock
2022 - present
  • Leading projects in infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security , and training and guiding other SREs.
  • Managing and maintaining 1000+ customer facing clusters in GCP with tools like Terraform, Crossplane, Kustomize, and Go.
  • Automating processes, creating CLIs, and monitoring bots with programming languages such as Golang, Python, and Bash.
  • Maintain software releases with CICD tools like ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, Argo Events, Codefresh, Jenkins, and Github Actions.
  • Monitor all systems with tools like Log Explorer, Grafana, Prometheus, and Sysdig. Troubleshooting with customers the ForgeRock applications written in JSON, Java, and Go.
Engineer II, Cloud Operations - Samsung Electronics
2021 - 2022
  • Containerized and dockerize applications such as Prometheus, Jenkins, Artifactory, and internal applications written in Java, with tools like Docker, K8S, Helm, ArgoCD, and EKS to create a microservice environment.
  • Maintain CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, CircleCI, and Github Actions to automate Java application configurations and deployment.
  • Managing, patching and maintaining customer facing servers and infrastructure on an on call rotation with the best security practices by using tools like Ansible, Puppet, Vault, Packer, and Terraform.
  • Manage monitor and alert systems using Kubernetes Dashboard, Dynatrace, Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Implement Lambda functions in Python and Bash to automate processes and solutions.
Cloud Operations Engineer - Ping Identity
2018 - 2021
  • Administered Macs, Linux, and Windows machines, on premise, hybrids and AWS, GCP, and Azure clouds, with Jamf, MDM, VMwareSalt and Puppet.
  • Implement and maintain AWS solutions in EC2, DynamoDB, IAM, RDS, VPC, EKS, Lambda, and CloudWatch using Terraform as Infrastructure as Code.
  • Automate large scale deployments, cost saving solutions and website management for cloud servers using Python, Powershell, Django, Jenkins, Packer, Docker, Kubernetes, and Salt.
  • Maintain and upgrade web servers in Nginx and Apache, and applications such as Jira, Gitlab, Artifactory, Google, Zoom, Zendesk, among others.
  • Be part of the 24/7 on call rotation to assist users and maintain Tier 1, 2 and 3 applications, mail, AD, DNS servers, and docker containers.
  • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Gitlab, Gitlab runners in EKS, and Jenkins.

Education

2012 - 2017
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering
University of Victoria
AWS Certified Cloud Practicioner
Amazon AWS

Get in Touch

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