Cesar Gonzalez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Windows and Azure Developer
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Toptal member since October 13, 2014
Cesar is an experienced system administrator and developer who has worked for large companies, including IBM. He is a proactive and hard-working person, always looking for improvements and innovations that can be made. Cesar is a team player who enjoys multicultural teams and interdisciplinary projects and can adapt quickly to changing environments and processes.
Portfolio
Experience
- Windows Server - 10 years
- Windows PowerShell - 7 years
- Azure - 4 years
- Windows Server 2016 - 3 years
- Octopus Deploy - 3 years
- TeamCity - 3 years
- GitLab CI/CD - 2 years
- Jenkins - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Windows PowerShell, Windows, Azure
The most amazing...
...thing I've programmed is a script to auto-accept tickets in Service Manager 7.
Work Experience
Configuration Manager
Kapsch TrafficCom Argentina
- Coordinated and validated build generations for release and deployment.
- Implemented and maintained each project's SCM strategies (branches, labels, and merge).
- Wrote Ansible scripts to deploy Azure infrastructure for projects.
- Migrated TFS/TeamCity SCM and configured Gitlab CI/CD pipelines.
Senior System Engineer
Thomson-Reuters
- Created a dashboard for the messaging team, using ASP.NET, VB.NET, and PowerShell.
- Wrote PowerShell scripts to monitor the messaging environment.
- Created an audit tool to grab server information in C#.
- Built a migration portal for the directory service team.
- Developed a PowerShell module for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) commands.
DevOps Engineer
Biin Consulting Services
- Set up Azure DevOps pipeline for build and deployment.
- Educated on Terraform usage and configuration for deploy environments.
- Configured production environment for mobile application.
Azure Expert
Advyon Consulting, LLC
- Educated on how to configure Azure VDI for external customers.
- Configured and deployed VDI environment and VPN connection.
- Provided and reviewed costs for VDI implementation and configuration.
Cloud DevOps Engineer
EY
- Engineered technical deliverables for cloud and virtualization or client projects in collaboration with the assigned project manager.
- Completing assigned deliverables on large-scale, global projects, reporting directly to the team lead.
- Produced cloud private services deliverables that met or exceeded benchmarks for quality and performance in accordance with the project timeline.
- Wrote a Spotfire and Tableau automation script to deploy an application into a private cloud that was customized by the customer.
Release Manager
VMBC Labs
- Established and maintained a configuration management (CM) tool.
- Created or released baselines and tracked and controlled changes. Identified the configuration of selected work products that composed baselines at given points in time.
- Wrote Git scripts to merge and deploy to Azure web apps in different stages (development, testing, and production).
Senior Messaging Engineer
IBM
- Created a web monitor site to provide a quick view of the messaging environment.
- Found and corrected a bug in the IBM Tivoli monitoring tool for Microsoft Exchange 2003.
- Wrote a script to report status and issues with Exchange databases, message queues, and services.
- Created a custom page for the help desk to see user information; show the user database; and access email addresses, mailbox quotas, etc.
- Wrote a script to grab information about message information from a group of mailboxes.
Experience
Messaging Dashboard
Teamcity to Gitlab CI/CD Migration
Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Implementation
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems
National University of Technology - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
Skills
Tools
TeamCity, Microsoft Exchange, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab, Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, Grafana, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core
Paradigms
DevOps, Azure DevOps, Agile
Platforms
Windows Server, Windows Server 2016, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows, Azure IaaS, Azure PaaS, Docker, Kubernetes
Languages
VB.NET, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), C#
Storage
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Databases, Azure Websites
Other
System Administration, Octopus Deploy, CI/CD Pipelines, YML, Windows 10, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Dashboards, IIS 7, Internet Information Services (IIS), Azure Portals, DevOps Engineer, Information Systems, Remote Desktop, Azure VDI
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