Pablo Suárez
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Developer
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Toptal member since September 6, 2021
Pablo is an IT professional with a decade of experience focused on contributing to development teams to adopt DevSecOps practices such as continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, automation, and observability. He has worked across the world with startups and corporations such as Emirates, Coca-Cola, and BBVA, always bringing value in terms of increasing teams' productivity, infrastructure cost reduction, and site reliability management.
Portfolio
Experience
- DevOps - 6 years
- Jenkins - 6 years
- Ansible - 4 years
- Docker - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- OpenShift - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Jenkins, Python, OpenShift, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, DevOps
The most amazing...
...thing I've created was an end-to-end CI/CD GitOps pipeline, moving from all-legacy processes to a K8s containerized, automated, and reliable Jenkins solution.
Work Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Zilliqa
- Contributed to designing and implementing the company's CI/CD platform to deploy applications to Amazon EKS clusters using Terragrunt, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Argo CD.
- Participated in designing and implementing the company's observability platform using Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon CloudWatch, Managed Services for Prometheus, Grafana, and Slack notifications.
- Supported the development teams in the automation and continuous improvements of the current production systems in Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS.
- Migrated the infrastructure components to the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services using Infrastructure as Code in Terraform and Rust.
Senior Technical DevOps Engineer
Emirates Group
- Managed different development teams in adopting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, infrastructure as code in Terraform, containerization in OpenShift and EKS, observability tools, and amplified feedback loops.
- Designed and implemented an end-to-end CI/CD GitOps pilot for the company, passing from all-legacy processes to a contained, scalable, and automated solution in OpenShift with observability tools integration.
- Migrated seven applications in Python from on-premises to Kubernetes in Amazon EKS. The infrastructure was fully defined as code, and the CI/CD processes were implemented in Jenkins with JTE templates.
- Promoted from managing the DevSecOps practices adoption and the systems' reliability for one project to managing the entire portfolio of the commercial area, consisting of 15+ active projects.
DevOps Engineer
Property Finder
- Managed the adoption of Terraform for the AWS infrastructure to include 99% of the cloud resources, contributing with this to the fast deployment of new environments, monitoring integration, and disaster recovery activities.
- Supported the migration of five core apps from EC2 to Kubernetes in production, using infrastructure as code in Terraform and CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins with deployment and rollback capabilities with Helm.
- Implemented a project to migrate the company's 20 blogs from standalone instances to a containerized, highly available and scalable solution using Docker, ECS, spot instances, and Aurora.
DevOps Engineer
Kairos Digital Solutions
- Managed the cloud infrastructure in AWS and implemented CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for the business intelligence platform for Coca-Cola Spain, achieving a reduction of 50% of the billing costs and removing external providers' fees.
- Supported the company in the DevOps engineers interviews, internal infrastructure projects, blog content, and expanding clients. During this period the company grew up from 10 employees in Spain to around 200 in four countries.
- Promoted to manage, essentially from the United States, the DevOps practices adoption, AWS infrastructure, and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for the US version of the BBVA API platform project.
Professor of Amazon Web Services
U-Tad
- Taught the AWS module for the Master of Cloud Expert in 2015 class.
- Awarded an AWS Education Grant for sharing credits with the students.
- Prepared from zero the whole material for the class, including presentations, exams, and projects. I supported three students in their final master's project.
Experience
Property Finder
I was part of the DevOps team behind the cloud infrastructure and deployment processes. I focused on migrating apps to Kubernetes, integrating AWS managed services such as Aurora Serverless, DynamoDB, and Elasticsearch, and defining the full infrastructure resources and pipelines as code.
Sistema Academico Integral
I was the lead developer, system administrator, and project manager, interacting directly with the stakeholders to plan and implement new features and platform upgrades.
BBVA Open Platform
https://www.bbvaapimarket.com/I was a part of the DevOps team that supported the microservices architecture by deploying the resources in a scalable hybrid infrastructure in AWS and on-premises. I managed the adoption of DevSecOps practices in the US team regarding automation, continuous integration and delivery, and observability.
Education
Master's Degree in Information Technology
University Carlos III of Madrid - Spain
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology
The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education - Mexico
Certifications
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate
HashiCorp
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional Level
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level
Amazon Web Services
Certified Associate in Project Managament (CAPM)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Sun Certified Programmer For The Java 2 Platform SE 5.0
Sun Microsystems
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Terragrunt
Tools
Terraform, Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Jira, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Bamboo, Ansible, Apache, Amazon EKS, Bitbucket, VPN, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon OpenSearch, ELK (Elastic Stack), Grafana, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), AppDynamics, Splunk, Kibana, Vault, Travis CI
Paradigms
DevOps, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Agile Software Development, Scrum
Platforms
OpenShift, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS Lambda, Windows, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), PagerDuty
Storage
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Databases, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Datadog, MongoDB, Elasticsearch
Languages
Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Rust
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Other
Amazon RDS, Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD Pipelines, Subnet, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Software Engineering, IT Project Management, IT Networking, Architecture, Networking, Security, AWS CodePipeline, Argo CD, Amazon EventBridge, Prometheus, GoCD, Consul, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions
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