Rafael B.

Rafael B.

DevOps Engineer

Argentina
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About Me

A highly specialized DevOps Engineer, Application Support, NOC and System Administration expert who is known for his thorough and creative approach to automating environments, monitoring and provisioning cloud resources with Terraform, Gitlab CI, Consul, Chef, and AWS. He is adept with new technologies and proposes appropriate enhancements that suit the needs of his clients. His works are geared towards client confidence and trust in the final product.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
DevOps Engineer
2018 - Present (6 years)
Remote
  • Delivers CI/CD as part of an agile team in improving performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.

  • Helps build and improve infrastructure, application and performance development and ensures tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environment scanning.

  • Ensures high-quality deliverables and implements DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments

Quantic Mind
Quantic Mind
DevOps Engineer
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
Remote
  • Implemented integrations, deployed application updates, identified production issues for a platform that manages, scales and optimizes performance marketing.

  • Implemented the CI pipeline and managing CD tooling.

  • Measured performance of application with system & application log tools.

Globant LLC (Electronic Arts contractor)
Globant LLC (Electronic Arts contractor)
DevOps Technical Lead
2015 - Present (9 years)
Cordoba, Argentina
  • Operate, maintain and scale internal web-based applications by automating pipelines to provision infrastructure in the cloud.

  • Established and developed a single terraform module for specific services to avoid code duplication on infrastructure provisioning.

  • Provide support to the online gaming infrastructure by deploying Online and Live game features, maintaining virtual online game infrastructure environments and deploying software solutions and tools (Jenkins, Chef, etc.) to the client's virtual environment.

Uniqs
Uniqs
Unix System Administrator
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Provided support for the escalation of maintenance services on Oracle Solaris 10 and IBM AIX 7.1 platforms for clients. (Production,Testing, Development, Integration).

  • Provided support for the implementation, troubleshooting, and automated OS patching and provisioning in On-Premise DCs for clients.

  • Provided Tier 1 problem identification and diagnosis support for several responsibilities that included patching strategies, monitoring improvement/consulting, contingency planning, disaster recovery, backup and restore for distressed clients.

Nimbuzz
Nimbuzz
Unix Admin
2010 - 2013 (3 years)
Cordoba, Argentina
  • Responsible for maintaining and improving the Monitoring Platform supporting the Production (+700 hosts) and Testing Environments as well as Networks.

  • Optimized system operations with monitoring tools like Nagios, Munin, Cacti, and customized checks for specific services, scripting in Bash and Perl for different clients.

  • Provided assistance for platform-wide sessions, traffic and other graphics behaviour services (Such as FD's, GarbageCollection, CPU Usage, Memomy, Load Average and specific service parameters & metrics) for clients.

HP
HP
Information Programmer
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Cordoba, Argetina
  • Provided offshore application support for GMAC USA following the ITIL v2 guidelines.

  • Regularly performed detailed analysis of business and technical requirements for clients.

  • Enhanced and managed the regular extraction and manipulation of data for clients.

Portfolio

DevOps Technical Lead, Auction House
DevOps Technical Lead, Auction House

This is a Generic service which abstracts the core functionality needed to facilitate timed auction services, auction resolution callback, sorting and searching on aggregate data. Meets high performance SLAs. Technologies used: Configuration Management: Chef; Service Discovery: Consul; IaaC:Terraform; CI/CD: Gitlab-CI; Cloud Provider: AWS; OS: Centos 6.9; Monitoring: Zabbix, AppDynamics, Grafana, CloudWatch; Centralized Logging: ELK

DevOps Technical Lead, Channels
DevOps Technical Lead, Channels

Similar in concept to Twitter like a news feed, but for game events that allows users to opt in' to contextual notifications, and can be reused for any type of notifications or aggregate data split among different channels owned by specific users. The complete followers feature also represented a new method of correlating, routing, and aggregating service requests and user information between services. Technologies used: Configuration Management: Chef; Service Discovery: Consul; IaaC: Terraform; CI/CD: Gitlab-CI; Cloud Provider: AWS; OS: Centos 6.9; Monitoring: Zabbix, AppDynamics, Grafana, CloudWatch; Centralized Logging: ELK

DevOps Engineer, Uniqs
DevOps Engineer, Uniqs

Sun Solaris 10: Using Solaris Live Upgrade, reducing the downtime to just a reboot time. This helped to avoid service disruption or patching in off-peak hours. IBM AIX 7.1: Through NIM ( Network Instalation Manager ) apply upgrades and updates via nimadm. Based on mirroring the rootvg on an alternate boot device, and working on this inactive media allowing to apply patches or upgrades without service disruption.

DevOps Engineer, EA
DevOps Engineer, EA

In order to avoid code duplication on the infrastructure provisioning (we provide service for several franchises like FIFA, NBA, Madden, Battlefront, Battlefield, and others) I was in charge of creating a single terraform module for the specific service. This helped a lot to reduce the provisioning time and boosted the client satisfaction for the low ETA.

Education

Education
Electronic Engineering (Quitted in the 5th year for personal/family reasons)
National University of Cordoba, Argentina