Nestor Pana
Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Developer
Néstor is a systems engineer obsessed with how things work. He has been working with computers since he was a kid, acquiring experience in software development life cycle, DevOps and cloud technologies. After working for large enterprise companies as well as small startups in the Barcelona area, Néstor is excited to take action and help others get things done and find their own path to excellence.
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The most amazing...
...thing I've done was to create and run an online community about hacking for eleven years.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps/Cloud Architect
Top Pharma Company (Spain/Switzerland)
- Defined, implemented, and built CI/CD pipelines for greenfield and legacy projects.
- Defined and implemented on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure architecture.
- Identified and ran proofs of concepts for new automation candidates and cloud-based technologies.
- Gave talks, mentored/coached, and ran workshops for new technologies to be adopted by the organization, best practices in the software development lifecycle and DevOps topics.
- Elaborated several value stream maps to identify bottlenecks and troubleshooting the SDLC.
- Architected and implement end-to-end monitoring and audit platform for predicting (proactive monitoring) of failing builds, flaky tests, bottlenecks in the release process, slow and fast developers and other insights about the SDLC and release train.
Senior Software Engineer/DevOps
Belron carglass (Spain/London)
- Architected, led, and participated in the development of the online booking platform.
- Architected and implemented the CI/CD pipelines to speed up the development lifecycle.
- Troubleshot performance issues of the legacy ERP. slow queries, and bottlenecks.
- Maintained the legacy ERP and developed connectors for the new microservices.
- Researched and developed new use cases for cloud tecnologies with IBM Cloud (whatson).
- Organized and participated in hackathons.
Software Developer/DevOps
Fujitsu (Spain)
- Developed and deployed La Plataforma, a custom platform to audit and facilitate bank employees' work.
- Developed several applications in .Net framework for the migration of the data from the legacy platform to the new one.
- Developed automation scripts for the worldwide distribution of software used by the company.
- Participated in the architecture of the distribution process for new software and hardware across the company in an automated way.
- Deployed both hardware and software across EMEA bank offices. Also supported worldwide for the same purpose.
Software Developer/Systems Administrator
Indra (Spain)
- Served as a software developer of massive documentation software (Business Process Outsourcing, BPO).
- Participated as a technical representative in the merging of the billing systems for Gas Natural. (SAP/Siebel).
- Followed backup procedures for top classified documentation.
- Implemented some tooling in C# to help automate internal processes.
Sampling Technician
Applus
- Participated as an IT engineer in the certification process of the swap of telecommunication nodes from GSM to GPRS technology in participation with Vodafone and Ericsson.
- Automated small internal procedures.
Field Technician
Telefonica (Spain)
- Performed network installation and management for Imagenio IPTV implementation.
Experience
Large Enterprise Build System Implementation
Led the Development and Deployment Booking Platform
Development and Deployment of New Hardware in An Automated Way
Skills
Languages
Bash, C#, Visual Basic, VBScript, C Shell, Batch, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Frameworks
.NET, Windows PowerShell, Django, .NET Core, OpenVAS
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline
Tools
Jenkins, Docker Compose, Vagrant, Terraform, Visual Studio, SCVMM, NuGet, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Ansible, Vault, Jira, Artifactory, Slack, ELK (Elastic Stack), NGINX, Oh My Zsh, Docker Swarm, Redmine, BMC Remedy, Git, Bamboo, xUnit, Metasploit, Wireshark, MATLAB, PhpBB, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
Paradigms
DevOps, Azure DevOps, Kanban
Platforms
Azure, Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Windows, Linux, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), OpenStack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows 7, AIX, Kubernetes, Oracle, LAMP, Kali Linux, Wifislax, WordPress
Other
Cloud, GitOps, DSC, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Cloud Architecture, Windows Containers, ChatOps, Plastic SCM, Scanning, Security, Monitoring, Windows 10, Shell Scripting, ITSM, Software, IPTV, Hardware, Consul, Octopus Deploy, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Analytics
Storage
Datadog, Compose.io, PostgreSQL, MySQL
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Certifications
Certifying in Leading SAFe and SAFe for DevOps
Scaled Agile
Certified Scrum and Scrum Master
European Scrum
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