
Alejandro Rivera Gonzalez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Developer
Guadalajara, Mexico
Toptal member since August 23, 2017
Alejandro is a DevSecOps and MLOps engineer expert in cloud technologies with experience in AWS, Azure, and GCP on large production environments. He can automate anything from code deployment to infrastructure, ensuring best practices and proper monitoring. Alejandro thrives in Agile environments, where he can put his problem-solving skills to work.
Portfolio
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 8 years
- DevOps - 8 years
- Python - 6 years
- Docker - 5 years
- Terraform - 4 years
- Continuous Integration (CI) - 3 years
- Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) - 3 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Azure, Python 3, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, GitOps, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Agile Software Development, Kubernetes, Pulumi
The most amazing...
...project I've completed was setting up multi-region Kubernetes clusters with infrastructure as code and a Terraform and GitOps methodology.
Work Experience
DevSecOps Engineer
RenoQuest, LLC
- Helped as a solutions architect designing the company's infrastructure.
- Provided budget estimates for implementation in various cloud providers.
- Gave advice on the best technologies to use for a couple of custom systems that were being designed.
Enterprise DevOps | MLOps Consultant
Deckers - IT
- Designed a CI/CD plan to modernize application development in the company and select the best-suited tools for the job.
- Developed CI/CD pipelines and templates from the ground up for Java applications using GitHub Actions.
- Created a migration plan to transition from SVN to GitHub and GitHub Actions workflows for a better team collaboration and development process.
- Set up and configured a database migration tool, Liquidbase, in GitHub workflows for their Oracle DBs.
- Built Pipelines for Generative & Inference AI using AWS Sagemaker.
Senior DevOps Engineer
Imbellus
- Supported infrastructure migration from ECS to Kubernetes and reduced infrastructure footprint.
- Worked on the observability pipeline from Fluentd in containers to the ES cluster and search through Kibana. Metrics from containers to Prometheus with alerts from the alert manager integrated into Slack and visualization in Grafana.
- Moved away CD with ArgoCD from imperative deployments to declarative, following GitOps practices.
DevOps Engineer
Local Catch LLC
- Migrated the current infrastructure into IaC using Terraform and Ansible.
- Wrote lambdas in Python to help automate custom processes.
- Set up monitoring.
- Fixed issues related to their Docker containers and ECS cluster.
- Set up a development/CI environment.
DevOps
Takt
- Set up Terraform modules for infra deployment.
- Set up and maintained Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration.
- Created Kafka PoC.
- Created Ansible AWX PoC.
- Created Docker images.
DevOps Engineer
EpicGames
- Collaborated with the operations team to handle all infrastructure.
- Deployed new infrastructure using Terraform to Azure cloud and AWS.
- Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate the configuration of new resources.
- Migrated existing applications and services into Docker containers.
- Created new MongoDB replica sets and implemented Fluentd for log processing.
- Worked on implementing Kubernetes in a new infrastructure iteration.
DevOps Engineer
Disney ABC
- Managed and maintained more than 25,000 chef recipes.
- Collaborated with colleagues to prepare the infrastructure for Oscar's event and the NBA Finals, pre-warming load balancers and increasing the capacity of back-end servers.
- Deployed preproduction and production environments, rotating AZs in and out to avoid downtime.
- Down-sized infrastructure after big events like the Oscars and NBA Finals.
- Wired Python scripts to automate AWS reports using the BOTO3 library.
- Contributed to the reduction of infrastructure footprint that resulted in more than 30% monthly cost decrease by right-sizing everything and identifying unused resources.
DevOps Engineer
Electronic Arts
- Contributed to the operations team to keep eCommerce infrastructure healthy and running.
- Deployed voice servers across multiple regions.
- Deployed apps in preproduction and production environments.
- Troubleshot live issues.
- Created monitoring dashboards in Zabbix.
- Implemented Auto Scaling groups for different services and applications.
Quality Assurance and Production Management
Morgan Stanley
- Prepared all systems for business in different markets around the world (Asia, EU).
- Handled incidents on sales and trade platform.
- Set up Apache/Tomcat environments for development teams.
- Managed NAS/NFS shares.
Lead NOC Engineer
Gorilla Nation/Evolve Media Corp
- Supervised and coached people on my team.
- Monitored all infrastructure on a 24x7 schedule, including metal and virtual servers.
- Wrote Puppet manifests to automate server configuration.
- Improved internal process for better team 24x7 rotation.
- Provided performance improvements for Apache back ends.
NOC Engineer
Gorilla Nation/Evolve Media Corp
- Contributed proactively to internal projects to improve monitoring and production tools.
- Monitored infrastructure.
- Developed a visual check script to rotate through all of our sites to keep it running inside our office and help visual monitoring of sites.
- Served as the first point of contact when there was an outage, troubleshooting, and escalating when necessary.
- Improved our response to volumes filling up by creating a wrapper script for LVM.
Experience
Multi-availability Zone Deployment on AWS
https://github.com/riveragalejandro/ha-deploy-terraform-ansibleEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Systems Engineering
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) - Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Skills
Libraries/APIs
OpenSSL, REST APIs, OpenAPI, Terragrunt, Argon.js, ArcGIS
Tools
AWS CLI, AWS ELB, Ansible, Grafana, Terraform, Boto 3, Git, Fluentd, Helm, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon EKS, VPN, Amazon CloudWatch, GitHub, AWS Glue, AWS CodeBuild, AWS IAM, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Web Application Firewall, Azure Key Vault, GCP Security, Logging, ELK (Elastic Stack), Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), GitLab CI/CD, TeamCity, Jenkins, Zabbix, Chef, Kibana, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon SageMaker, Microsoft Copilot, Nagios, Apache, Pingdom, Logstash, Sumo Logic, Puppet, Jira, AppDynamics, NGINX, Varnish, Perforce, Apache Tomcat, Sentry, CircleCI, AWS CloudFormation, Observability Tools, Apache Airflow, Splunk
Languages
Python 3, SQL, Bash, Python, Bash Script, PHP, Ruby, Java, JavaScript
Frameworks
AWS HA, Windows PowerShell
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Development (CD), Agile Software Development, Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices, Microservices Architecture, DevSecOps, Automation, Load Testing, API/Services Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, Continuous Integration (CI), Azure DevOps, Serverless Architecture
Platforms
AWS ALB, Amazon EC2, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Docker, CentOS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure Functions, AWS Cloud Computing Services, Blockchain, AWS Lambda, AWS Security Token Service (STS), Apache Kafka, Kubeflow, DigitalOcean, KVM, Apache2, Amazon
Storage
Datadog, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Databases, Azure Cloud Services, NetApp, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Redshift
Industry Expertise
Network Security, Cybersecurity
Other
Linux Server Administration, GitOps, ServiceNow, Networks, Prometheus, CI/CD Pipelines, Security, Containerization, Load Balancers, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud, AWS DevOps, Argo CD, Cloud Migration, Containers, GPU Computing, DevOps Engineer, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Single Sign-on (SSO), IT Security, Infrastructure, Networking, AWS VPN, System Administration, GitHub Actions, Cloud Infrastructure, Monitoring, Shell Scripting, AWS CodePipeline, Serverless, Configuration Management, Cloud Security, Transport Layer Security (TLS), VPC, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloudflare, Release Management, APIs, Cloud Engineering, Costs, Distributed Systems, OpenTelemetry, Scalable Web Services, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Integration, Cloud Monitoring, Canary Deployment, SSL Certificates, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Grafana 2, Amazon RDS, Amazon API Gateway, DApps, Web3, Pulumi, FastAPI, Machine Learning, xCAT, Graphite, ECS, Drones, SecOps, API Integration, Analytics, IT Systems Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Back-end, ML Pipelines, MLflow
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