
Fernando Cabrera
Verified Expert in Engineering
ECS Developer
Saltillo, Mexico
Toptal member since August 12, 2025
Fernando is a DevOps engineer with 8+ years of experience, primarily working with Linux and cloud environments that need high scalability, optimization, and security. He is passionate about coding and learning new skills for scalable, efficient solutions. During the latest stages of his career, Fernando has focused on learning and gaining more expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Portfolio
Experience
- AWS IoT - 8 years
- Jenkins - 8 years
- Bash - 8 years
- Python - 6 years
- ECS - 6 years
- Docker - 6 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Amazon EKS - 4 years
Preferred Environment
AWS IoT
The most amazing...
...project I've managed was an AWS environment for one of the biggest hotel chains in the US with thousands of daily users.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
3SHARE
- Administered 17 interconnected AWS accounts for a large hotel company.
- Updated multiple AWS services, primarily EKS, through extensive troubleshooting and reverse engineering after years of it lacking support.
- Addressed security vulnerabilities such as patches and DDoS attacks.
- Troubleshot errors and logs for various AWS services, web servers, and applications.
- Worked through services and apps left by the previous DevOps team with no documentation.
Senior DevOps Engineer
BOUNDLESS
- Enhanced code quality and implemented the single responsibility principle for scalability.
- Suggested and applied UX improvements for better user interaction.
- Unified state management for better app performance.
- Ensured API contract optimization to simplify front-end and back-end integration.
- Delivered clean and semantic code for easy comprehension.
Experience
Automated AWS Cloud Infrastructure Deployment
Certifications
AWS AI Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Machine Learning
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Tools
Amazon EKS, Amazon CloudWatch, Terraform, CircleCI, Jenkins, Sumo Logic, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Languages
Bash, Python, Go
Paradigms
DevOps, Azure DevOps, DevSecOps
Platforms
AWS IoT, AWS Lambda, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon EC2
Other
API Gateways, AWS WAF, ECS, CI/CD Pipelines, Monitoring, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Machine Learning, AIOps, Artificial Intelligence (AI), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Amazon RDS
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