Personal details

Santi A. - Remote DevOps engineer

Santi A.

Based in: đŸ‡ŠđŸ‡· Argentina
Timezone: Buenos Aires (UTC-3)

Summary

I'm a System Engineer with 10+ years of experience in the technical field, ranging from Dev, QA, DevOps, and SRE.
As of today, DevOps and SRE are my main areas of expertise; AWS, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, and anything that involves the Cloud.

I love sharing technical knowledge as well as solving problems, feel free to contact me!

If you're still here, as a bonus, I'm very passionate about text editors, especially Vim, and I like to write code in Python and Bash.

Work Experience

SRE and DevOps
Zype | Oct 2021 - Present
Python
Database
Varnish
Google BigQuery
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Terraform
Grafana
Prometheus
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Led and adapted the Google SRE culture and practices across the teams, after 6 months, 10 microservices started to improve by around 20% in terms of latency and availability. - Led and worked on Varnish to handle 1M requests/minute for video streaming using AWS Elemental. - Worked as a Data Engineer to improve the Data Pipeline implemented in GCP BigQuery. Costs were reduced by 200% by using DBT and leveraging the BigQuery Flex Slot cost model. - Worked as a Security Engineer, to address major points to achieve SOC 2 compliance.
Senior DevOps
DevGurus | Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Node.js
Azure
React
Google Cloud Platform
Cloudflare
Kubernetes
Terraform
Next.js
Cypress
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
- Worked as a Senior DevOps simultaneously for various customers like Walmart and Falabella. - Led infrastructure scalable designs, to handle events like Black Fridays; from the ground up, using AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare; Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio, and Vault. - Worked in pairs with developers, fostering a DevOps culture plus helping and learning with them in projects that involved nodejs, react, fastify, next.js; cypress, and k6 for performance testing.

Education

Universidad TecnolĂłgica Nacional
Bachelor's degree・System Engineer
Mar 2006 - Mar 2011

Personal Projects

Technical Youtube Channel and BlogIconOpenNewWindows
2020
Vim
Technical Writing
Video Editing
Vim Script
- Youtube channel and blog with nerdy things like Vim, DevOps, and SRE well received by the public. - Find them at https://santiagoaguero.com

Certifications & Awards

CKAD: Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux Foundation | Apr 2020
Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Apr 2019