Cesar is available for hire
Hire CesarCesar Gonzalez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Windows and Azure Developer
Location
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
Kapsch TrafficCom Argentina
Azure, Azure PaaS, Azure Portals, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Azure IaaS, GitLab...
Thomson-Reuters
Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows, Azure Active Directory...
Biin Consulting Services
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Azure, Git, Agile, .NET, .NET Core, C#
Experience
Availability
Part-time
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
2018 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: Azure, Azure PaaS, Azure Portals, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Azure IaaS, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps Engineer, Grafana, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes
Senior System Engineer
2011 - PRESENT
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.
Technologies: Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows, Azure Active Directory, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows PowerShell
DevOps Engineer
2021 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Azure DevOps, DevOps, Azure, Git, Agile, .NET, .NET Core, C#
Azure Expert
2020 - 2021
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.
Technologies: Azure, Remote Desktop, Azure SQL Databases, Azure VDI, Azure Websites
Cloud DevOps Engineer
2016 - 2018
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.
Technologies: Azure, Internet Information Services (IIS), IIS 7, GitLab, Windows, Azure IaaS, SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server, Windows PowerShell, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker
Release Manager
2015 - 2016
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).
Technologies: Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Internet Information Services (IIS), IIS 7, Windows, MySQL, Azure IaaS, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server Management Studio, Windows Server, Jenkins, Git, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps Engineer
Senior Messaging Engineer
2008 - 2011
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.
Technologies: Windows Server 2012, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Windows PowerShell
Experience
Messaging Dashboard
Dashboard to integrate all web tools, reports, and scripts in one place and with a user-friendly interface.
Teamcity to Gitlab CI/CD Migration
A Teamcity based project to build a different .NET solution was successfully migrated to Gitlab CI / CD to build and push packages to Octopus deploy tool. This project involved the migration of all build configuration processes from Teamcity to Gitlab YML files and the creation of scripts for that process.
Azure Windows Virtual Desktop Implementation
An environment for remote access to Azure infrastructure using Windows Virtual Desktop solution using roaming profiles in Azure, allowing users to access company resources using WVD with Windows 10 desktops and custom applications. This project reduced maintenance of the environment and maximized the resources.
Skills
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, ASP.NET, .NET, .NET Core
Tools
TeamCity, Microsoft Exchange, GitLab CI/CD, GitLab, Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Services, GitHub, Grafana, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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
Other
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
Languages
VB.NET, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), C#
Storage
SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL Databases, Azure Websites
Education
1999 - 2006
Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems
National University of Technology - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Certifications
DECEMBER 2021 - DECEMBER 2022
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
FEBRUARY 2020 - FEBRUARY 2022
Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
JANUARY 2020 - PRESENT
Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft