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Profile

My professional profile could be defined as a “all terrain” person. I come to Operations / SRE / DevOps from the software development field, through the unknown and tough territories of system integrations.

My experience includes very different profiles ranging from project management or team lead, to software and cloud architecture, and some other not so common contexts, for example embedded industrial systems development, and of course working in a broad spectrum of business like retail, Telco, Government, etc

Experience

SRE advocate, IBM Research

Too early to say know how could help here...

SRE lead, Clarity.ai

Blameless IR Capacity planning DR planning AWS Packer Terraform ansible Kubernetes Docker gitlab-ci python bash Prometheus MongoDB MySQL PostgreSQL

March 2019 - Present

If I had to define Clarity's responsibilities, I would say that I am the person who intends to help the company reach its next level of maturity, trying to evangelize about how an SRE team can add a lot of value to our product.

DevOps advocate, Fon

Blameless IR Capacity planning DR planning AWS Packer Terraform Puppet Kubernetes Docker gitlab-ci Jenkins bash Prometheus MongoDB

2017 - 2019

Lead a new DevOps implementation for the company from the R&D department. Operations of the product, configuration management, infrastructure as code, Ci/CD, and some internal tooling development. Also I lead the outreach initiative to gain some visibility in specific places for the company. Help promote new knowledge communities about cutting-edge technologies that could form part of the company's future.

SRE lead,4iQ

Blameless IR Capacity planning DR planning Puppet AWS Packer Terraform Puppet Kubernetes Docker bitbucket Jenkins Python bash Prometheus MongoDB MySQL Elastic Search

2016 - 2017

Lead a new SRE international department. Operations of the product, configuration management, infrastructure as code, Ci/CD, release management, and “Toolsmith”, this position had several challenges mainly related with the coordination of team being dispersed around the world.

SRE Engineer,Tuenti

Bare metal VoIP Puppet Python ruby bash PostgreQSL MySQL Hadoop

2014 - 2016

Operations of the platforms, on-call duty, configuration management, release management. Focused on VoIP systems, Big data and BK, and developing the backup system of the company. Data platform design, backups system design, Big data platform administration.

Sysadmin Integration Engineer,CSIC

Bare metal Private Cloud Open Nebula Xen NetApp Vagrant Chef ruby bash Oracle LDAP

2009 - 2014

IT governance, I led the transformation from the virtualisation platform, mostly based on Xen and lvm, to the private cloud, configuration management, release management, a lot of development around the corporate tool-chain.

Software Engineer, Carrefour group

Java POS ruby Too much MS-Word

2007 - 2009

Point Of Sales new application architecture leadership. Too bored to deserve more than one line.

Software Engineer, CSIC

Bare metal Xen Vagrant Chef ruby bash Oracle LDAP

2005 - 2007

Helping to push the digital transformation plan for the CSIC corporation.

Software Engineer, InteSys

Boots ACE IPC Framework CORBA SNMP C++ Perl bash Oracle

2002 - 2005

Leading the project of the implementation of the OSA 3GPP interfaces and middleware software for Telefónica Moviles España, in order to open their systems to the Virtual Operators. During this peridod of time I also led other projects and initiatives such as: An electronic invoicing system, MMS gateway, among others.

Software Developer, Orange

Java Perl bash Oracle MySQL

1998 - 2002

Leading several initiatives like: Electronic invoicing system, MMS gateway, Implementation of the OSA 3GPP interface and middleware for two different stacks CORBA and Web services reative developer, crafting immersive web experiences, managing traditional media ads to interactive solutions.

Intern, I.E.E.C.S.S. Universidad de Oviedo

C Delphi bash Step5/7 i-bus

1996 - 1998

Developing an API for management and configuration of the Siemens AS-Interface bus, and several libraries to help with the communications with Siemens S5/S7 platforms

Education

  • Computer Engineering Degree at the Universidad de Oviedo
  • OpenStack Foundations, StackOps University
  • Telco systems management, E.O.I

A little More About me

Years ago I could be called a mountaineer, although I always carry the call of the mountain with me. I'm a true believer in the FOSS, DevOps avocate, and agile thinking, you could define my goal as help to make the things happen working as a team.

Personal Achievements

  • I decoded the Siemens S5/7 communications protocol to finish my dissertation (they denied my access to the code)
  • Learned "the hard way", the best technical project can be the worst product
  • I survived to the work load of a "big" social network in the SRE department being a middle-aged man surrounded by millennials
  • I’m quite proud having helped to made a complex system for a really big Telco with only 5 person team, which became a big competitor in the MVNO/MVNE context back then
  • I won a honorific mention making a home automation system in 1996 (no, it wasn’t the time of IoT back in those days)
  • I’ve learned to solve the Rubik’s cube after having turned forty

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