Ricardo – AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

A prospecting platform that helps identify companies and contacts that match your ideal customer profile, improving integration workflows with your CRMs of choice.

• Optimized infrastructure resource usage reducing costs by 25%.
• Implemented distroless Docker images in microservices, hardening app security.
• Designed Terraform modules and imported for consolidation of 100% infrastructure as code for AWS and MongoDB Atlas resources.
• Prepared outage response plans for AWS RDS PostgreSQL resources.
• Managed Kubernetes clusters for development, production, GitLab runners, and shared services.
• Supported cross-continent development teams.

A web platform for handling requests and tracking of loans used to finance purchases with other companies (e.g. electronic appliances).

• Designed and implemented a multi-region AWS infrastructure, enhancing availability and resilience.
• Executed data migration pipelines with AWS DMS, accelerating migration times by not using custom ETL scripts.
• Supported multiple projects, solving outages and debugging failing services.
• Built Terraform modules from the ground up for AWS services such as EC2, ECS, ECR, VPC, S3, RDS, DMS, and Cloudwatch.

One of the largest sources for construction equipment, trucks, trailers, cranes, auctions, parts and attachments. Pricing and auction information is also made available in its platform.

• Trained company's developers on DevOps tasks so they could take over once our part was finished.
• Implemented AWS infrastructure, automating its provisioning and providing multiple environments for testing and production.
• Reconfigured suitable infrastructure resources for adequate consumption, decreasing costs where possible.
• Implemented automated dependency updates for improved security in codebase.
• Automated CI/CD pipeline with Buildkite, supporting developers to focus on their tasks with better log visibility on what made pipelines fail.
• Set up a VPN for secure access of client's databases for migration tasks.

An outsourcing company that provides agile teams for custom software solutions or staff augmentation for US companies.

• Supported multiple clients and software projects simultaneously.
• Reduced costs by optimizing infrastructure resource usage, instance scheduling, and removing unused resources.
• Contributed to company's software boilerplate for future projects, leading to adoption of practical infrastructure technologies and faster initial sprint starts.
• Improved shared knowledge of processes and project documentation.
• Helped developers deliver features faster by improving their CI/CD demands and tooling requirements.
• Successfully handed CMS platform for a health research organization, improving their database configurations and debugged their issues.