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Emmanuel Alvarez

Emmanuel Alvarez

Tech Advisor | Cloud Engineer | SRE | DevOps Engineer | Solutions Architect | Entrepreneur | Startups Builder | Platform Engineer
Bogotá

Summary

Telecommunications Engineer - Post degree Project Management, Over the past 12 years, I have managed platforms for different projects and clients, in different companies in Latam and around the world.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

DevOps Architect

Fragomen Immigration Services
11.2024 - 02.2025
  • Attended team meetings to resolve technical and project issues and review project schedules.
  • Maintained strong communication with clients throughout the design process to ensure alignment between their vision and the final product.
  • Researched materials to determine appropriate selection for projects.
  • Applied creative problem-solving skills to address unique challenges in the architectural design process.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to improve structure sustainability and design.
  • Mentored junior architects on best practices within the field while providing guidance on complex design issues.
  • Verified construction documentation to meet client requirements and vision.
  • Developed detailed architectural models to provide clients with clear visualizations of proposed projects.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Centr Fitness App
01.2024 - 02.2025
  • Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
  • Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.
  • Increased system reliability, minimizing downtime and service disruptions through proactive troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
  • Improved release management processes by introducing version control systems such as Git for tracking changes throughout the software lifecycle.
  • Reduced deployment times with the introduction of CI/CD pipelines for multiple projects.
  • Streamlined infrastructure management through automation using industry-leading tools such as Ansible, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
  • Facilitated knowledge sharing among team members by documenting processes, best practices, and lessons learned from past experiences.
  • Provided engineering support from code delivery until retirement of application.

Senior DevOps Engineer

LA Clippers
03.2024 - 12.2024
  • Optimized cloud resource usage by analyzing cost metrics and making recommendations for more efficient configurations.
  • Maintained systems that monitored applications and infrastructure.
  • Enhanced system stability by implementing robust monitoring and alerting solutions.
  • Maintained metrics visibility using Datadog and Prometheus/Grafana to create useful dashboards and monitors.
  • Integrated security into cloud architecture solutions to prevent bugging.
  • Managed AWS assets and integrated multiple AWS resources into solutions appropriate for company projects.
  • Incorporated automated testing procedures into the development process to ensure code quality before deployments were executed.
  • Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.

DevOps Technical Lead

Bayview Asset Management, LLC
07.2022 - 08.2023
  • Develop and implement DevOps strategies aligned with organizational goals
  • Identify and evaluate new tools and technologies to enhance the DevOps processes
  • Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of the company's infrastructure
  • Ensure high availability and scalability of infrastructure and applications
  • Lead the development and implementation of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments
  • Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline processes and improve efficiency
  • Implement and manage monitoring tools to ensure the health and performance of applications and infrastructure
  • Ensure security best practices are followed in infrastructure and deployment processes
  • Lead incident response efforts and coordinate with relevant teams to resolve issues
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of infrastructure, processes, and procedures
  • Monitor and manage infrastructure costs
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the DevOps team

DevOps Architect

Cafeto Software
09.2020 - 06.2023
  • Company Overview: a nearshore software development company
  • Driving the transformation and modernization of our clients' IT infrastructure and operations
  • Architected and implemented scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions tailored to meet diverse business needs
  • Encompasses strategic planning, designing infrastructure, automating processes, and ensuring seamless collaboration between development and operations teams
  • A nearshore software development company

DevOps Architect

Code Power
09.2022 - 01.2023
  • Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure architecture solutions for gaming applications
  • Provide technical guidance and leadership to development teams
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends
  • Oversee the development of technical solutions from concept to deployment

MLOps - Machine Learning Project Leader

Mercado Libre
02.2021 - 09.2021
  • Build world-class team based in Colombia
  • Building and delivering a high-end model serving platform and infrastructure
  • Responsible in managing the job workflow, resource and task allocation for the Project Team
  • Designing and delivering training to the Project Team

DevOps Manager

OmniLatam
04.2018 - 01.2021
  • Design and develop end to end automated solutions for a wide variety of databases, data integration, business intelligence products, processes and capabilities
  • Identify manual processes that can be automated
  • Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing

Senior DevOps Engineer

Rappi
11.2017 - 05.2018
  • Building, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting software running with focus on AWS
  • Comfortable debugging complex running in AWS, troubleshooting RESTful web services
  • Highly skilled in troubleshooting and optimizing Linux server based application performance

DevOps Engineer

Blanc Labs
11.2016 - 11.2017
  • Design of the projects environments in Docker
  • Create all necessary file to dockerize the projects environments
  • Manage cloud servers platform

IT Project Coordinator

Hisoft Panama Sucursal Venezuela
01.2013 - 11.2016
  • Develop and implement strategies to strengthen the project with lessons learned from the previous year
  • Create a space for exchanging experiences and ideas about managing the project with my team
  • Ensure the stability of the technological platform and ensure the operation for compliance with national goals

Senior IT Specialist - Systems Management BackOffice

Supercable Telecomunicaciones S.A.
01.2011 - 01.2013
  • Monitoring and Verification AD Servers, Internet and Mail Server
  • Installation and maintenance of FXB (for analog and digital extensions)
  • Support LAN / WAN networks

Training- Department of Photonics Venezuela

Fundación Centro Nacional de Desarrollo e Investigación en Telecomunicaciones, Cendit
02.2011 - 06.2011
  • Training in the Department of Photonics, where a variety of projects that promote development and technological sovereignty to ensure growth in the area of telecommunications in our country develop

Education

Alta Gerencia en Dirección, Planificación y Control de Proyectos - Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones

Universidad Central de Venezuela
01.2015 - 01.2016

Skills

Cloud Applications

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Telecommunications

Design

Administration

Support of technological platforms

Migration of platforms

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Elastic Container Service (ECS)

Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Auto Scaling

Route53

Relational Database Service (RDS)

DynamoDB

CloudWatch

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Lambda

WorkMail

IAM

MSK

SMS

DMS

AWS Organizations

Kubernetes

Infrastructure creation as code

Terraform

Automation

Continuous Deployment

Ansible

Jenkins

Circle CI

Team City

GIT lab-hub

Gerrit Code Review

Sonarqube

AWS CodeBuild

AWS CodePipeline

Azure DevOps

Platform security

AWS GuardDuty

WAF

Macie

Container Management

Microservices

Docker

Log management

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Certification

Apache Tomcat 7 Application Server

Timeline

DevOps Architect

Fragomen Immigration Services
11.2024 - 02.2025

Senior DevOps Engineer

LA Clippers
03.2024 - 12.2024

Senior DevOps Engineer

Centr Fitness App
01.2024 - 02.2025

DevOps Architect

Code Power
09.2022 - 01.2023

DevOps Technical Lead

Bayview Asset Management, LLC
07.2022 - 08.2023

MLOps - Machine Learning Project Leader

Mercado Libre
02.2021 - 09.2021

DevOps Architect

Cafeto Software
09.2020 - 06.2023

DevOps Manager

OmniLatam
04.2018 - 01.2021

Senior DevOps Engineer

Rappi
11.2017 - 05.2018

DevOps Engineer

Blanc Labs
11.2016 - 11.2017

Alta Gerencia en Dirección, Planificación y Control de Proyectos - Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones

Universidad Central de Venezuela
01.2015 - 01.2016

IT Project Coordinator

Hisoft Panama Sucursal Venezuela
01.2013 - 11.2016

Training- Department of Photonics Venezuela

Fundación Centro Nacional de Desarrollo e Investigación en Telecomunicaciones, Cendit
02.2011 - 06.2011

Senior IT Specialist - Systems Management BackOffice

Supercable Telecomunicaciones S.A.
01.2011 - 01.2013
Emmanuel AlvarezTech Advisor | Cloud Engineer | SRE | DevOps Engineer | Solutions Architect | Entrepreneur | Startups Builder | Platform Engineer