Coding Architect & Platform Engineering
With over 18 years of experience working across many sectors and roles, from business-critical applications in e-commerce and finance, to complex logistics, from Software Development to Cloud Architecture. The last years I’ve been focused on providing companies with a solid platforms to build on and deliver value to customers, based on the best practices for distributed computing, scalability, security and observability, all while reducing operational overhead. Upskilling the workforce to continuously deliver value and to embrace Agile and DevOps mindset, providing clear operational insights to react to market changes and anticipate issues.
Skills
Kubernetes
Istio, Cilium, Helm, Helmfile, Ingress
DevOps
Terraform, Azure DevOps, Secret Management, Maven, Nuget
Programming
.Net, Go, Rust, Deno, NodeJS, TypeScript, Java
Architecture
Cloud Architecture, DDD, SOLID, C4, Diagrams as Code, Clean Architecture
Linux
Docker, Podman, LVM, Proxmox, Systemd, LXC, Virtual Networks, KVM
Cloud & Networking
Cloudflare, AWS, Azure, Firewalls, DNS, API Gateways, TLS Termination
Data
SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, Kafka, AMQP, Cosmos DB, Couchbase
Observability
Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, Open Tracing, New Relic, Splunk, Dynatrace
Web
React, Vue, Angular
Work Experience
OCT 22 - Present
Lead SRE
ClearPoint
Auckland, New Zealand
ClearPoint is a digital design and engineering company headquartered in NZ. We help New Zealand and Australia's leading organizations to design, engineer and optimize their digital products and teams. That means working out the right digital solutions to take a business where it wants to go.
Key Achievements:
- Design and implement the CI/CD strategy for the integrations platform team.
- Design and implement Configuration and infrastructure as Code for Azure, Confluent Kafka.
- Design and implement fully automated API Gateway solutions based on MuleSoft Exchange platform.
- Training & Documentation for integrations platform usage.
Main Technologies:
Azure DevOps, Terraform, Kafka, OpenShift (K8s), MuleSoft, Java, Quarkus.
JUL 22 - OCT 22
Consulting Architect
TSB Bank
Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand owned bank with over 165 years of history.
Key Achievements:
- Design plan for ISO20022 migration.
- Architect solution for Remediations Portal.
- Define migration current forms solution.
Main Technologies:
Structurizr, Java, Spring.
JUN 20 - JUL 22
Platform Engineer Consultant
Countdown
Auckland, New Zealand
Leading supermarket brand with over $6bn in annual revenue and serving more than 3m customers weekly.
Major Achievements:
- Design and implement Kubernetes clusters and strengthen security.
- Design and execute the live migration for business-critical services to Azure.
- Provide guidance and mentorship as part of the captains group.
- Define and create templates for CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for Infrastructure as code and k8s services.
- Define helm templates for: services, cronjobs and message consumers.
- Create repository for terraform modules.
- Design and Implement ingress routing for public and internal services using Istio service mesh.
- Design requirements and strategy for observability and SRE practice.
- Implement IdP solution based on Keycloak.
- Provide training and mentoring for containers and k8s.
- Work on microservices for Mobile and E-Commerce platforms.
Main Technologies:
K8s, Istio, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Helm, Keycloak, Keda, .Net, Kiali, Grafana, Elastic, Azure Monitor suite, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Splunk…
OCT 18 - AUG 20
Head of development / Head of architecture
Brave New Coin
Auckland, New Zealand
Digital assets and blockchain data research company, providing data for Nasdaq, Down Jones, Amazon among many others.
Major Achievements:
- Define strategy for service focused offering for flexibility and composability of products.
- Create a digital portfolio application for management of digital assets.
- Create suite of micro services for: asset classification, price alerting, news alerts, portfolio and reports.
- Design and implement platform based on k8s, with elastic suite for Observability.
- Give tech talks around: K8s, Site Reliability, ElasticSearch, Micro-services and Event-driven architectures.
Main Technologies:
k8s, Helm, Azure, AWS, Cognito, ElasticSearch, .Net, Java, Websockets, Cloudflare, Traefik, Nats.io, Event Hub, Spark, Amazon Kinesis, New Relic, Splunk, Jenkins, Travis-CI…
FEB 16 - OCT 18
Tech Lead
Vista Entertainment
Auckland, New Zealand
Leading world provider for software in the cinema industry with over 40% market share.
Major Achievements:
- Create a global scale service for cinema ticketing and metadata.
- Design and implement e-Commerce solution for Chinese market with millions of daily transactions.
- Redefine company branching strategy for efficiency and smooth release issues.
- Give on-site training on the Shanghai office.
Main Technologies:
K8s Rancher, .Net, Azure, Cosmos DB, Redis, Data Lake, Rabbit MQ, Traefik, App Insights, New Relic, Pager Duty, Prometheus, Grafana, Angular, Octopus, Jenkins…
May 2014 - October 2015
Senior Developer Consultant
Rabobank
Dublin, Ireland
International financial services organization with over 150 independents local Rabobanks and over 50k employees.
Role:
Design and Implement solutions for compliance and improving existing products, help with the transition to Agile and BDD practices. Using .Net, CQRS, SQL Server, Angular amount other technologies.
AUG 13 - MAY 14
Senior Developer Consultant
DeCare Systems
Cork, Ireland
Provide consulting services for architecture and development of solutions on .Net and Java with over 140 employees.
Role:
Create E-Commerce platform for Avon for US and Russian Markets and Mobile site. Using Angular, Umbraco, .Net, MongoDB, Octopus...
FEB 08 - AUG 13
Tech Lead
Infoport Valencia
Valencia, Spain
Lead provider for logistics solutions for the Port of Valencia helping it to become the biggest port in Spain and the 2nd on the Mediterranean and 5th busiest in Europe.
Role:
Create solutions used globally for tracking goods, inland transport management and mobile solutions. Using Spring.Net, Angular, SQL Server, Responsive Design, Phonegap, Java...
APR 04 - SEPT 07
Systems Engineer / Developer
Tasaciones Levante
Valencia, Spain
Provider of Expert evaluations services to offer an independent view to insurance companies.
Role:
Manage networks and servers and develop a platform for expert evaluation reports. Using ASP.Net, JavaScript, SQL Server...