Gonzalo Peci
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Gonzalo is a forward-thinking lead, architect, and site reliability engineer with a passion for continuously learning and thinking outside of the box. He's worked with different technologies, industries, and cultures gathering business requirements and matching them with efficient technology solutions. Gonzalo has delivered several technology solutions and shaped the technology strategy for multiple startups and enterprise organizations.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), System Design, Python, Automation, Terraform, Linux, Apache Kafka
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was an insurance platform from scratch, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure code, practices, hiring, and more.
Work Experience
Engineering Manager
Coya AG
- Built the scalable infrastructure and architecture by utilizing modern practices and technologies like self-healing, docker, multi-environment, infrastructure-as-code, and more.
- Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline which reduced our build and deployment time by more than 50%.
- Created more than 15 modular infrastructure as code components following best practices.
- Implemented a secure multi-account, multi-environment AWS organization.
- Created a cross-platform CLI for converting CSV to XML SEPA.
- Contributed to several OSS projects to add missing features or fix bugs affecting our operations.
- Managed a team of six SRE and back-end engineers including growth, reviews, one-on-one, and more.
- Reduced AWS costs by leveraging AWS Spot Instances and auto-scaling resources based on saturation.
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Coya AG
- Designed and implemented an AWS multi-environment, multi-account architecture and utilized 100% infrastructure as code.
- Designed and implemented an AWS ECS cluster and orchestration services.
- Implemented a CI/CD workflow with Travis CI to deploy both infrastructure and services.
- Built a dynamic access control system allowing engineers to SSH to machines using their AWS credentials and short-lived SSH certificates.
- Directed pragmatic architecture, technical roadmap, and product decision-making.
- Mentored and scaled the SRE team by creating DevOps practices and workflows.
- Developed Coya's agile practices and workflows adapted to a startup scale and company culture.
Senior DevOps Automation Engineer
Zenmate GmbH
- Created a Django REST certificate and public DNS automation API, including a Python client library and CLI.
- Mentored junior and intermediate members of the team and help upskill them.
- Built tools that facilitated the development pipeline from design through integration, testing, and deployment.
- Created a Go stats microservice capable of processing 1 million requests per minute.
- Dockerized our core API services to reduce problems between development, testing, and deployment.
Lead Automation Engineer
Datacom, Ltd.
- Guided our team on CI/CD methodologies and building delivery pipelines.
- Mentored junior and intermediate members of the team and help to upskill them.
- Defined and implemented automated system installation/configuration procedures.
- Automated all aspects of the cloud infrastructure (datacenter) provisioning such as network, storage, monitoring, backup, computing, operating systems, application installation, and maintenance.
Infrastructure Technical Lead
Paymark, Ltd.
- Worked with our R&D team to implement a CI/CD deployment process and toolchain to facilitate the deployment of new initiatives under agile and DevOps methodologies.
- Guided Paymark in the transition to an automated infrastructure as well as advice on our new cloud solutions initiatives to ensure the reliability and security of our platform.
- Led the hybrid platform solution design and business case presentation.
- Investigated, planed and deployed new technologies and/or improvements to the infrastructure.
- Received recognition for my delivery, proactivity and resolution skills.
- Migrated several datacenter to a new datacenter and infrastructure.
- Improved several platforms including, SAN/NAS connectivity and reliability, VMWare environment, DNS, Exchange.
Enterprise Administrator
IBM
- Awarded IBM Hall of Fame in recognition of my customer satisfaction oriented service and proactivity.
- Led the IBM XIV Storage migration and planning.
- Developed, tested, and implemented the Disaster Recovery process for Windows 2003 Cluster, hosting SQL and File and Print services which used to have problems in previous DR exercises.
- Configured and maintained different server stacks – Windows 2K3/2K8 ESX 3.5 / ESXi 4.1 / ESXi 5.0.
Experience
Docker Machine VMware Workstation Driver
https://github.com/pecigonzalo/docker-machine-vmwareworkstationOpen Source Docker Swarm
https://github.com/pecigonzalo/tf-docker-swarmReference WordPress on an AWS Implementation
https://github.com/pecigonzalo/wordpress-awsIt utilizes stateless WordPress nodes to allow for dynamic scaling and zero-downtime delpoyments.
Skills
Languages
Bash, Python, Python 3, Scala, C#, Ruby, SQL, Go
Tools
Terraform, Travis CI, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), AWS ELB, AWS Fargate, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Vagrant, Packer, GitHub, VMware, Git, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Logging, NGINX, Jenkins, Docker Swarm, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon EKS, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS IAM, AWS Key Management Service (KMS), AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon EBS, Grafana, Kibana, Logstash, Graylog, Boto 3, Bamboo, Splunk
Paradigms
DevOps, Automation, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Agile Software Development, Microservices Architecture, Agile, Scrum, Microservices, DevSecOps
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Linux, Amazon EC2, Kubernetes, Windows Server, AWS Lambda, Buildkite, Apache Kafka
Other
Monitoring, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Infrastructure, Cloud Infrastructure, Leadership, Technical Leadership, DNS, Team Leadership, AWS Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), System Administration, CI/CD Pipelines, Prometheus, Configuration Management, Security, Serverless, Amazon Kinesis, APIs, Remote Team Leadership, Distributed Systems, IT Security, Web Security, AWS DevOps, Lambda Functions, Amazon RDS, System Design, ECS, Cloudflare
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, GitHub API, Node.js
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis, Amazon EFS, Storage Area Networks (SAN)
Frameworks
Django, Windows PowerShell, Flask
Certifications
Architecting on Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
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