Andres Jovellanos
Verified Expert in Engineering
Shell Scripting Developer
Dublin, Ireland
Toptal member since December 9, 2019
Andrés is a goal-oriented DevOps engineer with over a decade of working experience with *nix systems and heterogeneous infrastructures. He stands out with his excellent communication skills, as well as for his flexible and analytical approach to problem-solving. For the last four years, Andrés has worked in AWS environments with different infrastructures as code frameworks, config management, and orchestration tooling.
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Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible, Terraform, Python, Linux, DevOps
The most amazing...
...challenge I've had was having to refactor most of the troposphere-based IaaC so we could deploy our infrastructure in a multi-account manner.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Spotcap Global
- Refactored the IaaC tool to deploy the infrastructure in several AWS accounts.
- Automated ES backups in S3 and provided the base ground to restore it.
- Reduced AWS bills 20% by scaling EC2 instances to zero and did it according to schedule.
- Implemented automated upgrades for security patches.
DevOps Engineer
OLX Group
- Supported application teams in the software development life cycle to ensure successful releases.
- Followed and tracked projects in Jira involving infrastructure and development teams.
- Participated in the architecture design and the step-by-step planning of new services.
- Deployed new services and infrastructure with Terraform in AWS.
SysOps Engineer
OLX Group
- Managed incidents during on-call rotation 24/7 restoring faulty services that affected the end-user.
- Optimized and tuned the infrastructure and services, from Linux kernel in AWS AMIs to application configurations using automation tools.
- Enhanced the monitoring system with automatic remediation actions depending on the alert and severity with Ansible and Puppet.
- Supported a wide variety of high traffic infrastructures, from AWS to bare-metal deployments.
- Debugged and solved infrastructure misbehavior related to NTP, SSL, and configuration management.
Unix/Linux System Administrator
Globant
- Configured and provisioned lt virtual servers with VMware ESX and bare-metal servers (development. quality control, quality assurance, user acceptance testing, production) for internal and on-demand projects.
- Configured and managed hosted SVN/Trac repositories for companies projects.
- Maintained and deployed an internal DNS infrastructure and views for new and existing offices.
- Upgraded and maintained hosted Atlassian tools like Bamboo and Crucible.
- Maintained, configured, and deployed FTP, web, and WordPress services among others.
Unix Production System Analyst Support
Verizon Business
- Supported Verizon's application telephone invoice system.
- Developed KSH and T-SQL scripts to identify recurrent issues in the application's backend.
- Analyzed project migration feasibility to new environments.
Operation Production Support
Accenture
- Supported a critical financial related infrastructure for an internal customer.
- Monitored and supported ESB, MySQL servers, and IIS in production environment.
- Reported issues and managed projects for the global team.
Unix System Administrator
IBM
- Supported application migrations under WebSphere application server on Linux systems.
- Configured and maintained Solaris and AIX customer infrastructures.
- Prepared and reviewed technical instructions for standardized deployments.
Experience
AWS Kibana Dashboard Migration Tool
https://github.com/j0v3/migrate-kibana-dashboardEducation
Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering
Universidad de la Marina Mercante - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Flask-RESTful
Tools
Ansible, Terraform, Grafana, Jenkins, Puppet, Nagios, VMware, NGINX, Apache, Git, Subversion (SVN), Terminal, Zsh, AWS CLI, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), AWS CodeCommit, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS ELB
Paradigms
DevOps, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), REST, Agile, Kanban, Test-driven Development (TDD)
Platforms
Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CentOS, Unix, Solaris, WebSphere, Docker, Sensu, Kubernetes, BSD, AIX, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, OpenShift, Amazon EC2
Languages
Bash, Python 3, SQL, YAML, AWK, Python, KSH, T-SQL (Transact-SQL)
Storage
Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, JSON, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Other
Software Development, Shell Scripting, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Akamai, BIND, FTP, DHCP, NFS, IIS, F5 Networks, FTP Servers, HAProxy, DNS Servers, BIND 9, 12 Factor, Red Hat SpaceWalk, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
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