Carlos Gomez Val
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps, AWS Solutions Architect, and Developer
Carlos is a cloud engineer with over seven years of experience managing Linux-based systems in public clouds and on-premises from startup projects to enterprise, with tight security requirements. He focuses on automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and containers. He configured 30 Kubernetes clusters to hold an IAM solution for some of the most prominent car manufacturers in the German industry. Previous roles include DevOps engineer, system administrator, and cloud engineer.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Bash, Slack
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was building and managing a range of Kubernetes clusters to run an IAM solution on different cloud providers and on-premises solutions.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer
Service Layers
- Developed an automated Docker images signature within the build and deployment pipeline using Docker Notary and Harbor to verify images before deployment into the cluster.
- Maintained and configured Kubernetes clusters (30 in total) to hold an IAM solution for some of the most prominent car manufacturers in the German industry.
- Complied and configured a Kubernetes cluster with tight security constraints and requirements.
Cloud Engineer
Edrans
- Served as the DevOps SME in charge of the web team in a large, secondhand marketplace managing CI/CD, CDN, and servers.
- Migrated the application towards AWS EKS, along with the creation of specific CI/CD and logging and monitoring.
- Developed a CMS application for a customer using fully managed services in AWS and automated deployments (infrastructure and code).
System Administrator
Vendo Services GmbH
- Migrated a PCI-DSS-certified platform from the data center towards the public cloud (AWS) using IaC.
- Passed PCI-DSS level 1 certification every year, taking care of all the recurrent tasks and procedures.
- Architected a PCI-DSS platform on AWS along with deployment procedures for the CI/CD.
Experience
Cloud Migration of Standard eCommerce Website
Education
Engineer's Degree in Computer Engineering
University Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona, Spain
Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
Hashicorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
Amazon Web Services
Skills
Tools
Terraform, Amazon EKS, HashiCorp, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Ansible, Apache, Slack, Puppet, ELK (Elastic Stack), Splunk, NGINX, Grafana, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon CloudFront CDN
Platforms
AWS Cloud Computing Services, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), MacOS, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), New Relic, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure
Paradigms
Automation
Languages
Bash, Go, Python
Storage
MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch
Other
Cloud Migration, AWS Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Computer Skills, Akamai, Containers, Secure Containers, Prometheus, PCI DSS, Web Security, Card Payments, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), CI/CD Pipelines
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