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Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Solution Architect and Developer
Mexico City, Mexico
Toptal member since March 23, 2023
Bio
Luis is a cloud solutions architect for Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform. He's keen on providing IT solutions focused on software development in DevOps adoption, agile development, systems and platform integration, process automation, business development and optimization, and algorithm analysis. Luis is passionate about designing and creating solutions to spread knowledge to new generations and learning from them. There's always a solution, an answer, and the potential to innovate.
Portfolio
Digicel Group
Azure, Azure DevOps, Linux, Networking, Shell, Cybersecurity, IT Automation...
TGV
Azure, C#, Networking, Cybersecurity, IT Automation, Cloud Architecture...
Colbun (via Spinup)
Azure, Azure DevOps, Python, Networking, Shell, Cybersecurity, IT Automation...
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Terraform, Azure DevOps
The most amazing...
...on-prem data center migration to Azure I've done included a governance model for cloud operations and automation collaboration design, plan, and execution.
Work Experience
Cloud Architect
2021 - 2023
Digicel Group
- Planned and executed the migration of over 1500 on-premises servers and 100+ applications with different approaches such as lift and shift, replatform, rearchitecture, and rebuild.
- Consulted, designed, and performed migrations from client-server legacy desktops to microservices and serverless applications. The infrastructure is built and updated with CI/CD pipelines.
- Reduced total CapEx and moved to OpEx from the on-prem data center to the Azure cloud. Enhanced security via hardened VM images, firewall rules, NSG, and framework best practices. Reduced latency for end users.
Technologies: Azure, Azure DevOps, Linux, Networking, Shell, Cybersecurity, IT Automation, Cloud Architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Monitoring, Azure Landing Zones, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Azure Virtual Networks, System Administration, Automation, Infrastructure, Containerization, Azure Key Vault, Azure Blobs, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Network Gateway, MySQLdb, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, GitOps, Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, IT Security, Configuration Management, Cloud Security, Serverless, YAML, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Cloud Architect Consultant
2021 - 2021
TGV
- Worked on the cloud migration of a .NET legacy system for food industry automation. Performed cloud infrastructure and solution design and architecture, cloud resources configuration, and cloud security assessment.
- Built the PoC for a .NET legacy application on Windows Forms and WebForms for AAD B2C integration.
- Enhanced security over communication channels for HTTP and TCP. Integrated authentication with AAD B2C using OpenID.
Technologies: Azure, C#, Networking, Cybersecurity, IT Automation, Cloud Architecture, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Monitoring, Azure Landing Zones, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Azure Virtual Networks, Automation, Azure Key Vault, Azure Blobs, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Network Gateway, MySQLdb, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, GitHub, Continuous Integration (CI), IT Security, Cloud Security, YAML, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Cloud Architect Advisor
2020 - 2021
Colbun (via Spinup)
- Worked on cloud migration of SCADA systems in the electricity production industry to reduce CapEx, enable scaling, and reduce operational maintenance of servers with microservices.
- Provided guidance for cloud governance, migration processes, development/testing and production environment definition, infrastructure as code and provisioning, CI/CD processes, and pipelines setup for microservices deployment automation.
- Delivered flawless deployment and integration between testing and production environments. Reduced latency and network costs by refactoring VNet design and VPN setup.
- Optimized performance of microservices tasks by using autoscaling on nodes and containers. Reduced analytics platform costs by US $100,000/year.
Technologies: Azure, Azure DevOps, Python, Networking, Shell, Cybersecurity, IT Automation, Cloud Architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Monitoring, Azure Landing Zones, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Azure Virtual Networks, Automation, Infrastructure, Containerization, Azure Key Vault, Azure Blobs, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Network Gateway, MySQLdb, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Artifactory, GitOps, Continuous Integration (CI), IT Security, Configuration Management, Cloud Security, Serverless, YAML, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Cloud Architect Consultant
2019 - 2020
Finning Cat
- Worked on a cloud-native big data analytics solution for the mining and construction vehicle industry. Performed cloud design and architecture for different application microservices integration for data engineering process implementation.
- Designed and worked in implementing the CI/CD automation process using Azure DevOps, pipelines as code (YAML), and templates to apply DRY principles.
- Conceived the strategy and implemented the automation process for CI/CD of infrastructure as code and microservices deployment with autoscaling to process data ingestion from telemetry worldwide massively.
Technologies: Azure, Azure DevOps, Networking, Shell, Cybersecurity, IT Automation, Cloud Architecture, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Monitoring, Azure Landing Zones, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Azure Virtual Networks, System Administration, Automation, Microservices, Event-driven Architecture, API/Services Architecture, Infrastructure, Ansible, Containerization, Azure Key Vault, Azure Blobs, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Network Gateway, MySQLdb, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Artifactory, GitHub, GitOps, Continuous Integration (CI), DevSecOps, IT Security, Cloud Security, Serverless, YAML, Cloud Design, Continuous Delivery (CD)
Cloud Architect Consultant
2018 - 2019
RaceTrac
- Worked on IBM cloud to Azure migration and modernization by containerizing all components for the back end and management platform, moving applications written in Java from regular application servers to Docker containers using a swarming approach.
- Migrated a MongoDB cluster from a replica cluster to a container replica cluster. Enhanced security by applying WAF and NSG. Handled IaC for cloud infrastructure provisioning through IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Performed technical assessment of development teams regarding back-end cloud-based components. I also led teams of DevOps engineers using Azure DevOps to automate end-to-end processes from development, testing, deployment, and end-user consumption.
Technologies: Azure, IT Automation, C#, Networking, Shell, Cybersecurity, Cloud Architecture, Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Monitoring, Azure Landing Zones, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Azure Virtual Networks, System Administration, Automation, Microservices, Event-driven Architecture, API/Services Architecture, Infrastructure, Containerization, Azure Key Vault, Azure Blobs, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Network Gateway, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, GitHub, Continuous Integration (CI), IT Security, YAML
Software Architect
2015 - 2017
Hotel Connections
- Worked under the guidance and leadership of the delivery manager, ensuring technical quality and architectural alignment while providing technology solutions that meet functional requirements.
- Built and worked on enterprise-grade software systems on top of the Microsoft .NET development stack as part of an agile development team. Provided technical and team leadership through coaching and mentoring.
- Slashed the cost of software licenses for development and QA environments up to 100% (sometimes from US $50,000 to $0). Reduced development time by 90% through implementing industry best practices, coding standards, and TDD.
- Improved the overall efficiency of the IT team by 100% while adopting Scrum Agile with distributed teams. Reduced applications' latency by up to 90% by redesigning the architecture of the back end with SOA in the cloud.
- Increased readability of documentation by applying SOLID principles and code documentation standards. Reduced design and analysis time in half by introducing a 4+1 view model.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), C#, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft SQL Server, Networking, Cybersecurity, IT Automation, Monitoring, DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines, System Administration, Automation, Event-driven Architecture, API/Services Architecture, Infrastructure, Azure Key Vault, Azure Virtual Machines, Scaling, Continuous Integration (CI), IT Security
Software Architect
2006 - 2015
AMI Automation
- Redesigned the level 2 system core architecture on Windows Services from .NET Remoting to WCF, and a parallel project using the NoSQL database for data sharing between systems.
- Led and monitored a software development team for level 2 services and web reporting systems. Advised, coached, and tutored team members to achieve project goals.
- Designed and coded a project management system in C# using MVC .NET. Created a web reports system using JavaScript, Sencha Ext JS components, MVC .NET, and Oracle/SQL server to reduce reporting build time.
- Designed and coded user controls, libraries, and screens for HMIs to allow visual understanding of electric furnaces for the steel industry using C# and VB.NET. Developed tools and applications to customize and accelerate HMI's coding.
Technologies: C#, Windows Server, Windows Services, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Networking, Monitoring, DevOps, Automation, API/Services Architecture, Infrastructure, Azure Virtual Machines, Continuous Integration (CI), IT Security
Experience
Cloud Migration and Automation
I worked on cloud migration of SCADA systems in the electricity production industry. As an Azure architect, I provided guidance for cloud governance, migration processes, development/testing and production environment definition, infrastructure as code and provisioning, CI/CD processes, and pipelines setup for microservices' deployment automation.
Cloud Governance and Self-serving Initiative
I worked in an enterprise-grade multi-environment in the mature stages of cloud adoption with Azure. The product development was under agile methodologies, and it was cloud native in essence. Multiple vendors and their own teams from the client were working on product and feature development for big data, analytics, IoT, and ML in the road for AI implementation for customers and end users.
I was part of a solution and enterprise architecture board in charge of designing a new governance model to enable several key teams to reach the goal of having entire autonomous product development teams: self-serving their infrastructure, aligning their technical skills and working toward the best practice framework, complying with cloud architecture, building a zero trust security model, and fully automating processes.
I was part of a solution and enterprise architecture board in charge of designing a new governance model to enable several key teams to reach the goal of having entire autonomous product development teams: self-serving their infrastructure, aligning their technical skills and working toward the best practice framework, complying with cloud architecture, building a zero trust security model, and fully automating processes.
Data Center Migration to Azure Cloud
I worked on a long-term project to assess, plan, and execute a migration of over 1,500 servers from an on-prem data center to Azure with different transformations directly to VMs, app service web apps, functions, containers, and microservices.
All cloud resources were treated as IaC using Terraform and Azure DevOps. All the applications that could be modernized with the least effort (mostly those written in C# and Python) were converted to cloud-ready and some to cloud-native services and were deployed and maintained using ADO CI/CD pipelines.
All cloud resources were treated as IaC using Terraform and Azure DevOps. All the applications that could be modernized with the least effort (mostly those written in C# and Python) were converted to cloud-ready and some to cloud-native services and were deployed and maintained using ADO CI/CD pipelines.
Education
2000 - 2004
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
ITESM Laguna Campus - Torreon, Mexico
Certifications
DECEMBER 2020 - DECEMBER 2024
Azure Security Engineer Associate
Microsoft
AUGUST 2020 - AUGUST 2023
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
APRIL 2019 - OCTOBER 2023
DevOps Engineer Expert
Microsoft
MARCH 2019 - MARCH 2025
GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
AUGUST 2018 - AUGUST 2025
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
Skills
Tools
Terraform, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Key Vault, Azure Virtual Network Gateway, GitHub, Shell, Rundeck, Azure Application Gateway, Kong, Ansible, Artifactory
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps, Automation, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Role-based Access Control (RBAC), Microservices, Event-driven Architecture, DevSecOps, API/Services Architecture
Platforms
Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Windows Server, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Oracle
Storage
Azure Blobs, MySQLdb, Microsoft SQL Server
Languages
C#, YAML, Python, Bash Script
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Frameworks
Windows PowerShell
Other
Solution Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Azure Landing Zones, CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Azure Virtual Networks, System Administration, Infrastructure, Containerization, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Virtual Machines, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Scaling, Serverless, Software Development, Agile Practices, IT Automation, Monitoring, IT Security, Configuration Management, Cloud Security, Networking, Windows Services, API Management, GitOps, Cloud Design
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