Note: Much of my work has been in FinTech and healthcare environments — SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS regulated projects. Due to NDAs, client details are intentionally limited below.

Independent Cloud & SRE Consultant

Remote — US-based clients · Dec 2024 – Present

Partner with organizations to design, optimize, and scale cloud-native platforms across AWS and multi-cloud environments.

  • Led multi-cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Azure with Terraform — reducing operational overhead by 50%
  • Implemented IaC with Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD, cutting provisioning time by up to 60%
  • Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Codefresh), accelerating release cycles by 70%
  • Established full observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo — improving uptime by 50%
  • Tuned Kubernetes and Kafka workloads, increasing system capacity by 40%
  • Contributed to SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, reducing vulnerabilities by 40%

Kinect Consulting

Site Reliability Engineer — Florida, USA (Remote) · Oct 2023 – Oct 2024

SRE and Team Lead at an IT & Services company focused on Cloud Migrations and App Modernization.

  • Built observability with LGTM stack (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir)
  • Designed scalable Kubernetes clusters on AWS, GCP, and Azure for microservice architectures
  • Created Rancher Kubernetes clusters for on-premise using RK2 and Ansible

Waltlabs.io

Cloud Engineer / Team Lead — Texas, USA (Remote) · Aug 2022 – Sep 2023 Cloud Engineer · Dec 2020 – Aug 2022

Led a team on Cloud Migrations, App Modernization, and Lift & Shift projects across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

  • Built and maintained highly available Kafka clusters with ksql on Kubernetes
  • Developed Big Data pipelines from Codefresh to Databricks
  • Architected multi-environment pipelines in Codefresh with a shared variables approach
  • Executed Kubernetes migrations and deployments from dev to production

Modusbox Inc

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer — Seattle, USA (Remote) · Jul 2019 – Dec 2020

FinTech company enabling real-time payment interoperability on AWS and Azure.

  • Implemented AWS solutions: EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups
  • Built Kubernetes clusters from scratch using RKE, Ansible, Bash, and Terraform
  • Set up Prometheus and Grafana monitoring
  • Reduced release time by 70% (1h → 15min) via GitLab CI/CD pipelines

Serenova

DevOps Engineer — San Salvador, El Salvador · Dec 2018 – Jul 2019

Cloud-Native Contact Center company, multi-region production on AWS.

  • Migrated workloads from EC2 to Kubernetes; migrated Jenkins to JenkinsX on Kubernetes
  • Created Terraform modules for infrastructure provisioning

Grupo Mantech

System Administrator — San Salvador, El Salvador · Feb 2013 – Dec 2018

IT manager responsible for all company servers, networking, and infrastructure.

  • Managed Linux, VPS, bare-metal servers, firewalls (pfSense), and Avaya VoIP
  • Implemented Ansible for VM configuration management
  • Created monitoring with Nagios/Centreon and Prometheus dashboards
  • Configured bare-metal server pools using XenServer hypervisors