Jefferson Gonzalez
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Developer
Jefferson is a solutions architect consultant with over 11 years of IT experience, including five years in developing, designing, and maintaining scalable cloud environments. He enjoys collaborating and innovating as a curious learner with a passion for technology, automation, and event-driven architecture. Jefferson holds certificates from three leading cloud providers but specializes in Azure and AWS.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, HIPAA Compliance, Azure Synapse, Documentation
The most amazing...
...thing I've done was automating 10 serverless architectures using Pulumi and TypeScript and designing a multi-cluster Kubernetes strategy of 10,000+ pods.
Work Experience
Azure Architect
Manada Technology LLC
- Helped the customer develop a migration strategy to migrate a complex AI application workflow from AWS to Azure. Provided best practices, guidance, and an architecture review, achieving high performance and cost efficiency.
- Tracked and fixed tasks on reporting tools and infrastructure references.
- Determined a successful migration path for critical services, including training and inference, and put custom ML models into production.
Senior DevOps Engineer
WayScript
- Orchestrated the migration of the entire WayScript platform to Azure, using Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS CDK. It encompassed the seamless migration from AWS and the hosting of microservices on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Tracked security and functional issues on Azure using Linear.
- Assisted customers in meeting their Azure requirements while ensuring seamless integration with the WayScript platform.
- Created automation and GitOps strategy with the same performance as AWS. Implemented best practices on security using native Azure Cloud Services.
- Designed a complete end-to-end networking mesh architecture for critical services using AKS, Azure Front Door, Azure Event Grid, and Azure SQL.
DevOps AWS Engineer
SGSCO
- Troubleshot a digital studio platform on AWS using serverless and cloud-native technologies. The entire solution comprises of Amplify-based front end. Automated API using GraphQL, NoSQL, and DynamoDB and created iDP with Cognito.
- Documented the entire architecture on Jira, including the best practices.
- Enabled the pilot that allowed customers to enter the market for content generation and rendering using GPU-powered machines.
Senior Cloud Engineer (Freelance)
Caylent
- Collaborated with top AWS customers on automating cloud environments, creating service catalogs at scale, and migrating and modernizing legacy systems to cloud-native architectures.
- Tracked the automation benefits in Jira with the financial operations team.
- Enabled customers to build a complete SaaS application on AWS with multi-tenant capabilities and auto-provisioning of service catalogs.
Senior Cloud Engineer Lead
EPAM Systems
- Migrated critical workloads in AWS, automated the IaC using Terraform, increased visibility for workloads by using open source, built content delivery strategies across different geolocations, and created a service catalogs for ad-hoc requirements.
- Tracked improvements and completed milestones in Jira and GitHub.
- Contributed to the overall improvement in operational efficiency, including automation, cost optimization, scalability, and resiliency.
Cloud Architect
Volante
- Optimized the architecture of a real-time payment as a service provided by independent software vendors (ISVs) on the Azure platform. Used various technologies and tools and achieved the desired level of performance and automation.
- Designed an observability strategy using Thanos and Grafana for multi-Kubernetes clusters. The largest banks in the US and Europe used the product.
- Used open-source technologies to achieve operational efficiency and deep observability.
Cloud Engineer
CloudOps
- Collaborated with several game development companies to design a desktop-as-a-service architecture hosted in the cloud leveraging GPU and traffic management technologies with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Created a new product for streaming game testing in the cloud.
- Carried out testing of the application, including performance and latency tests and services distribution across different availability zones.
Experience
Amplify and AWS Optimization
https://www.sgsco.com/All the back end was created using serverless technologies such as Lambda and DynamoDB. The project includes automatically deleting idle services/resources for the user disconnecting the main portal. The front end has been deployed with Amplify.
Senior DevOps | Automation on Azure
https://www.wayscript.com/Spring Boot Pipeline
https://github.com/jbernal62/azure-spring-boot-pipeline/tree/masterThe client could provide a better experience for end users and customers using cloud-native technologies such as web apps.
Education
Master of Science Degree in IT Security Management
Arden University - London, United Kingdom
Certifications
AWS Serverless Badge
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Google Cloud Architect Professional
Google Cloud
C)PTE: CERTIFIED Penetration Testing Engineer
Mile2
Skills
Tools
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Ansible, Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon EKS, Grafana, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudFront CDN, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Jenkins, Kong, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), Citrix NetScaler, Azure Machine Learning, Azure ML Studio, AutoML, OpenVPN
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Penetration Testing, HIPAA Compliance
Platforms
Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), New Relic, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Azure Synapse, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, Cloud Run, Google App Engine, Amazon EC2, Citrix
Storage
Google Cloud, Amazon Aurora, Ingres, Amazon DynamoDB, Redis Cache, PostgreSQL, Datadog, Redshift
Other
Lambda@Edge, Serverless, Cloud Architecture, Documentation, Grafana 2, Prometheus, Redis Clusters, Edge Computing, FinOps, Pulumi, SOC 2, SecOps, Karpenter, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CI/CD Pipelines, Amazon RDS, Web Scalability, Scalability, Networking, Azure VDI, GPU Computing, Azure Event Grid, API Gateways, Service Meshes, Data Analytics, Risk Management, PCI DSS, Web Security
Languages
Python, SQL, TypeScript 3, C++, TypeScript
Libraries/APIs
AWS Amplify, Google API, Node.js
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell, Unity
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