
Jefferson Gonzalez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Developer
Bogotá - Bogota, Colombia
Toptal member since June 24, 2022
Jefferson is a solutions architect consultant with over 11 years of IT experience, including five years in developing, designing, and maintaining scalable cloud environments. He enjoys collaborating and innovating as a curious learner with a passion for technology, automation, and event-driven architecture. Jefferson holds certificates from three leading cloud providers but specializes in Azure and AWS.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 6 years
- Kubernetes - 5 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Azure - 5 years
- DevOps - 5 years
- Serverless - 4 years
- Google Cloud - 4 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 4 years
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, HIPAA Compliance, Azure Synapse, Documentation
The most amazing...
...things I've done were automating 10 serverless architectures using Pulumi and TypeScript and designing a multi-cluster Kubernetes strategy for 10,000+ pods.
Work Experience
GCP DevOps Engineer
Decimal LLC
- Helped the agency put a brand new digital campaign in production for Google hosted on GCP using best security practices such as IAP proxy, GKE, and automation. Implemented several security policies on GKE to increase observability.
- Tracked reference architectures on Jira. Created a reusable infrastructure on Terraform for GCP modules. Implemented a ticketing system based on telemetry when services had issues with logs.
- Reduced the launch time for the different websites, using Strapi, CDN, and Cloud SQL, and increased website security by 20%.
DevOps Engineer
Ricoh Americas
- Created a DevOps automation strategy for a new feature in the Ricoh USA platform, which reduced the pipeline execution time from 30 to 2 minutes.
- Successfully implemented a strategy for integration unit testing, QA testing, and IaC validation on serverless applications on AWS using Azure DevOps.
- Improved development efficiency by creating serverless applications 60% faster.
Azure Architect
Manada Technology LLC
- Helped the customer develop a migration strategy to migrate a complex AI application workflow from AWS to Azure. Provided best practices, guidance, and an architecture review, achieving high performance and cost efficiency.
- Tracked and fixed tasks on reporting tools and infrastructure references.
- Determined a successful migration path for critical services, including training and inference, and put custom ML models into production.
Senior DevOps Engineer
WayScript
- Orchestrated the migration of the entire WayScript platform to Azure, using Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS CDK. It encompassed the seamless migration from AWS and the hosting of microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Tracked security and functional issues on Azure using Linear.
- Assisted customers in meeting their Azure requirements while ensuring seamless integration with the WayScript platform.
- Created automation and GitOps strategy with the same performance as AWS. Implemented best practices on security using native Azure Cloud Services.
- Designed a complete end-to-end networking mesh architecture for critical services using AKS, Azure Front Door, Azure Event Grid, and Azure SQL.
DevOps AWS Engineer
SGSCO
- Troubleshot a digital studio platform on AWS using serverless and cloud-native technologies. The entire solution comprises of Amplify-based front end. Automated API using GraphQL, NoSQL, and DynamoDB and created iDP with Cognito.
- Documented the entire architecture on Jira, including the best practices.
- Enabled the pilot that allowed customers to enter the market for content generation and rendering using GPU-powered machines.
Experience
Amplify and AWS Optimization
https://www.sgsco.com/All the back end was created using serverless technologies such as Lambda and DynamoDB. The project includes automatically deleting idle services/resources for the user disconnecting the main portal. The front end has been deployed with Amplify.
Senior DevOps | Automation on Azure
Spring Boot Pipeline
https://github.com/jbernal62/azure-spring-boot-pipeline/tree/masterThe client could provide a better experience for end users and customers using cloud-native technologies such as web apps.
Certifications
AWS Serverless Badge
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Google Cloud Architect Professional
Google Cloud
Skills
Libraries/APIs
AWS Amplify, Google API, Node.js, REST APIs
Tools
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AWS IAM, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS Deployment, Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Ansible, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon EKS, GitHub, GitLab CI/CD, Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Jenkins, Kong, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Citrix NetScaler, Azure Machine Learning, Azure ML Studio, AutoML, OpenVPN, Apache Airflow
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Agile Project Management, Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, Penetration Testing, HIPAA Compliance
Platforms
Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Cloud Computing Services, New Relic, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Amazon EC2, Azure Synapse, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, Linux, AWS Lambda, Cloud Run, Google App Engine, Citrix
Storage
Google Cloud, Amazon Aurora, Ingres, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis Cache, PostgreSQL, Datadog, Redshift, MongoDB
Languages
Python, SQL, TypeScript 3, C++, TypeScript, Bash
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, Unity, Django
Other
Lambda@Edge, Serverless, Cloud Architecture, Documentation, Cloud FinOps, Financial Options, APIs, Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Security, AWS Certified Solution Architect, SSL Certificates, Microsoft Azure, Performance, Load Balancers, Grafana 2, Prometheus, Redis Clusters, Edge Computing, FinOps, Pulumi, SOC 2, SecOps, Karpenter, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Web Scalability, Scalability, Networking, Cloud Engineering, Costs, Financial Operations & Processes, Operational Finance, IT Networking, Scalable Web Services, IT Security, GitHub Actions, Azure Service Bus, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Azure VDI, GPU Computing, Azure Event Grid, API Gateways, Service Meshes, Data Analytics, Risk Management, PCI DSS, Web Security, User Stories, AWS DevOps, Strapi
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